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A RESUME OF THE 
COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND 
FINANCIAL RESOURCES, MUNICI- 
PAL ACTIVITIES AND GENERAL 
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY OF 

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Issued at the Instance of 

HON. JAMES H. PRESTON. Mayor 

by 
WILBUR F. COYLE, City Librarian 



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EXPLANATORY 

jgpg^gg®^ H IS book is written in response to the demand 

i^ for accurate information concerning Baltimore, its 

resources, its general development, and its munici- 

(^^^^^:^ pal activities. 

The Baltimore Book is published by the Municipality. It 
has no private purpose to serve. It deals primarily with the 
Baltimore of TODAY. 

Baltimore reveres her traditions, is proud of her history, 
glories in her honored past, but Baltimore, rich in all these 
priceless blessings, has been very practical and has given much 
thought, much aggressive energy, to the solution of the material 
problems that confront her as an important member of the 
Great Family of American Municipalities. 

What Baltimore is and what Baltimore is doing are herein 
presented as eloquent and convincing facts. The case is rested 
without argument. 

The development of Baltimore along industrial, commercial, 
governmental, financial and all civic lines, during recent years, 
has been extraordinary. Imagination plays no part in that 
statement. 

Baltimore, as far as the memory of man runneth, has always 
been big. It started with all the natural prerequisites of a great 
city. But Baltimore is not only big. It is bigger than ever; 
not only bigger, but better. This is not a vain boast. A few 
cities are bigger than Baltimore; find a better one. Baltimore 
has been bountifully endowed by nature, and nature is being 
assisted by those most skilled in civic development. The fol- 
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CITY GOVERNMENT OF BALTIMORE 
WHAT IT IS DOING 



A resume of great projects under way: The $23,000,000 Sewerage 
System; Repaying the City; Civic Centre; Colossal Municipal 
Docks; Factory Site Commission; Splendid Parks; Sanitary Regu- 
lations; Health, Fire and Police Departments; Public Schools; 
Free Baths, etc. 



jgg|^g®^HE Municipal Government of Baltimore is alert, 
' creative and constructive. It is not sufficient to 
I say that the administration is m sympathy with 
(^^^^^^ the great forward movement in this City. It 
is an inspiring part of the movement. Loyally supported and 
encouraged by citizens in all walks of life, it is engaged in a 
systematic scheme of modernization and beautification, and is 
pursuing a masterful constructive policy. It is a policy that 
does not balk at obstacles. An obstacle is something to be 
overcome; that's all. 

Since 1 904, when the heart of Baltimore was burned out, 
when smoldering ashes and hideous debris stretched over 1 40 
acres, Baltimore has been building, and building big. The 
great disaster was turned into opportunity. The loss, approxi- 
mately $125,000,000, was a staggering blow. No effort is 
made to minimize this fact, but it was a blow that awoke the 
fighting spirit. It was not a knockout. 

At this crisis, what did the City Government do? 




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It refused all outside aid; declined it courteously and with 
grateful thanks, for stricken Baltimore was very grateful. It 
wasn't false pride that impelled Robert M. McLane, then 
Mayor, to take this stand. He voiced the sentiment of the 
community when he notified the world that Baltimore would 
take care of its own, and would rebuild through its own effort. 
Before he could get this on the wires $60,000 had actually 
been received, and "draw on us" telegrams brought the amount 
up to $200,000. Every cent went back, but the generous 
sentiment which prompted the givers will always be treasured. 
The whole world seemed eager to hasten to the aid of Balti- 
more, Hundreds of sympathetic messages were received. 

The City had just sold its interest in the Western Maryland 
Railroad for $8,751,000. Upward of $4,500,000 of this 
fund was immediately used for public improvements and the 
rehabilitation of the burned area. 

A Burnt District Commission was created. It widened 
streets; it reduced grades. Baltimoreans built; they built wisely 
and built well. Old picturesque Baltimore had been partly 
wiped out by the fire, but before the flames were extinguished 
at one end of the destroyed district a new Baltimore was spring- 
ing up at the other. Those who saw the City in the throes of 
devastation wonder at the metamorphosis presented today. It 
is simply marvelous. Following the work of the Burnt District 
Commission other millions were spent according to a definite 
plan of City development. So much for the past. 

What is the City Government doing today? 

It is building the finest sanitary Sewerage system in the 
world, and will expend about $23,000,000 for this purpose. 
The system is almost completed. 

It has spent $6, 1 61 ,000 on its magnificent Municipal docks, 
and has available $5,000,000 more for the enlargement of the 
systenL, which includes a recreation pier. 





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It is constructing a broad street (Key Highway) paralleling 
the south side of the harbor for several miles. 

It is grappling the paving problem, and a Commission is now 
engaged in a general repaving plan for the entire City. The 
Commission has a working capital of $5,000,000. This will 
be increased by means of the paving tax to $10,000,000. 

To date 54 miles have been repaved and 1 miles are under 
contract. The highways are being improved under a general 
plan, and it is the aim of the administration to make Balti- 
more second to none in this particular branch of civic develop- 
ment. The latest standard specifications are followed and four 
standard pavements, namely. Granite Block, Vitrified Block, 
Sheet Asphalt and Wood Block, are being used. 

Aside from the above-mentioned $10,000,000, an addi- 
tional $4,500,000 are being spent on street improvement in 
the "Annex" (northern and western extremities). 

Forty-seven miles (based upon a width of 30 feet between 
curbs) have been paved in this particular section since 1 906. 
These streets, with those within the older parts of the City re- 
paved in accordance with the general plan of 1910 referred to, 
total 1 1 miles paved or repaved within recent years. 

And the work is still being pushed forward with great 
energy. 

There is pending a loan of $1,000,000 for the construction 
and improvement of Police Department buildings. 

For the enlargement of Baltimore's water supply, $5,000,000 
is available. 

A high-pressure water pipe line through the business section 
was completed in 1912 at a cost of $1,000,000. This is a 
very important addition to Baltimore's fire-fighting equipment, 
and materially reduces the cost of fire insurance. 



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San Francisco^ California, U. S. A. . . . 

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San Jose, Guatemala 2 830 

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BALTIMORE .^ND THE PANAMA CANAL 

The Panama Canal will have a tremendous influence upon 
Baltimore. 
Why? 

Almost every page of this book contributes to the answer. 
Baltimore, to begin with, is on an almost direct line with 
the west coast of South America, and is nearer the Canal than 
any other of the large cities of the Atlantic Coast. 

These important facts are very comprehensively shown on 
the accompanying map. 

With that rugged barrier, the Isthmus of Panama, no longer 
barring the way. the great west coast opens up untold and 
incalculable opportunities for commerce. 
But why Baltimore? 

Because trade, like almost everything, follows the course 
of least resistance. It traverses natural lanes if it can, and 
the thing that makes a lane natural or unnatural is largely 
geographical position. 

Baltimore's position is splendid. 

Because of this, one can not evade the conclusion that the 
Canal will have a tremendous influence upon this City, and 
that the beneficial effect will be communicated to the new 
field opened up — that vast territory which is just now put in 
direct touch with Baltimore. In other words there will be 
reciprocity. 

South American trade will come to Baltimore and be carried 
through Baltimore, because it will benefit those who take ad- 
vantage ol the opportunity the City offers. Baltimore docs not 
e-xpect people to bring their business here for its enrichment. 
I he point is, they benefit and enrich themselves by so doing. 
Look at the situation. 

The Baltimore Book is laden with facts that bear out 
the assumption that Baltimore is a natural trade route from 
Panama and is destined to became a great distributing depot 
for transcanal trade. Lower freight rates than enjoyed by any 
other city of the Atlantic Coast (as shown on pages 76, 77, 
78. 79 and 80 of this book) will draw merchandise here from 
an e.\tensive area of the United States, and just here an im- 
portant combination is elfected. 

Low freight rates, a shorter land and sea distance. Hence 
the natural lane; the course of least resistance. No obstacles 
in the guise of excessive rates to, or from, the western and 
northwestern sections of the United States, and a short voyage 
to the Canal. 

Isn't that an advantageous combination? 
But there are many other considerations, 
favor of Baltunore. 

Its splendid harbor. Covered wharves, from which ships 
lying in deep water alongside may be loaded; devices for the 
rapid handling of bulk cargoes, including coal. 

Three great trunk line railway systems connect Baltimore 
with the rich mining and agricultural regions of the West. 
Baltimore lies nearer these regions, let it be repeated, than any 
other large city of the Atlantic Coast. 

Then there will be always return cargoes for ships— a most 
important consideration. 

The vessel that comes here with the forest products of the 
North Pacific Coast, fruits or vegetables from California, bulk 
commodities from Central or South America, will go forth 
again freighted with coal, manufactured products of iron and 
steel, machinery, paints and mwed merchandise, for Baltimore 
IS very near the producing regions of these commodities. 

Central and South American countries require railroad 
equipment. Their agricultural and industrial development de- 
pends upon such. These countries want machinery of all 
sorts, clothing, hats, etc., and Baltimore stands ready to supply 
such needs, for It is in the manufacture of these articles that it 
now occupies a commanding position. 

Truly, there is no need for apprehension concerning return 
Mrgoes. 

With great railroad piers, open and covered: with storage 
warehouses; with a great Municipal pier system, which is being 
"tended; with shorter rail haul to Northern and Western cities 
and manufacturing districts than is enjoyed by other Atlantic 
ports; with the activities of the City Administration earnestly 
employed in the development of these facilities; with these and 
tfie multiplicity of other advantages set forth in The Balti- 
more Book, who can successfully dispute that the Canal will 
fiave a tremendous influence upon the future of this City? 



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The sum of $340,000 was expended in 1911 for additional 
apparatus and buildings for the Fire Department, exclusive of 
the sum appropriated annually for its maintenance. 

By means of an electric conduit system, overhead telephone, 
telegraph and electric wnes have been placed underground ; 
$3,000,000 have been spent for this purpose and $2,000,000 
more are available for a continuation of the work. 

There are hundreds of other things which the City Govern- 
ment is doing. In matters of municipal routine it is kept right 
to the notch. Departments are "keyed up" as are those of 
great private enterprises, and the whole organization is working 
in systematic harmony. Baltimore is not only enjoying a busi- 
ness administration, but a progressive business administration. 

The following pages will describe concisely some of the 
projects in which it is engaged. 




Boat Lake — T>ruid Hill Park 

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A GREAT SEWERAGE SYSTEM 

Baltimore will spend $23,000,000 on its Sewerage System. 
The work was begun in 1 905 and will be completed by 1914. 
Sections in various parts of the City are already in operation, 
and when it is entirely finished the City will have the most 
modern plant in the world. The system represents the most 
advanced ideas in the solution of this great Municipal problem. 

It is impossible to realize the magnitude of the work or the 
diversified engineering problems that are being solved every day 
unless one takes the time to visit in person some of the construc- 
tion work being carried on in various parts of the City. The 
work is most interesting because of its complications. 

The requirement of the Legislative Act, that all sewage must 
be purified before being discharged, made it necessary to keep 
the storm-water separate from the sanitary sewage, allowing the 
former to discharge through its own system of drains into the 
nearest natural outlet. The sanitary sewage is carried to the 
disposal plant and purified. The sewage, by bacterial treat- 
ment, becomes 95 per cent. pure. 

Two-thirds of the sanitary sewage of the City will flow by 
gravity to the disposal plant on Back River, about six miles 
from Baltimore. The other third will be pumped through huge 
iron force-mains to the outfall sewer, an elevation of 72 feet, 
from which point it also will flow by gravity to the disposal 
plant. The pumping station building is now completed and 
equipped with three engines, each having a pumping capacity 
of 27,500,000 gallons a day. The station will house five of 
these enormous pumps, the additional two to be installed later. 

The difficulties of the work are doubled because of the 
necessity of constructing two systems of sewers — sanitary and 
storm-water — which cross and recross each other in thousands 
of places. In some cases two large sewers of the different 
systems come together on the same level, which requires the 

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siphoning of one beneath the other. In one instance this re- 
sulted in the construction of one of the largest siphons in the 
world. 

The purified sewage, dischar^ged from the disposal plant, in 
flowing to its outlet operates turbines. These run dynamos, 
which produce current for lighting the plant at practically no 
cost. 




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BALTIMORE'S WATER SUPPLY 

The City of Baltimore has about $15,000,000 invested in 
its water works system, and an additional $5,000,000 was 
recently voted for an impoundmg and storage reservoir and 
filtration works, with the necessary connecting conduits and 
tunnels. Many of these are now in course of construction, 
and it is hoped that the entire work will be completed during 
the year 1915. 

Upon the completion of the new plant, the entire supply 
of the City will be taken from the Gunpowder River, which 
has an average daily flow of 270,000,000 gallons. The 
Jones Falls watershed which is used at the present time to 
supply part of the City's water, will be abandoned, although 
it will be possible to use the water from this source in case 
of an emergency. 

When the improvements, which are now well under way, 
are completed, Baltimore will have one of the finest water 
supplies of any city in the United States. A new impounding 
reservoir will not only give an ample supply, but a filtration 
plant will purify this water so that in quality it will equal that 
of any city in the world. 

The impounding reservoir, now being built at Loch Raven, 
on the Gunpowder River, will have a capacity of abou" 
2,000,000,000 gallons. The impounding reservoir on the 
Jones Falls Supply, known as Lake Roland, has a capacity 
of 400,000,000 gallons. 

There are seven storage reservoirs, most of them within the 
City limits, with a total storage capacity of 1,488,875,000 
gallons. There are also two standpipes, each with a capacity 
of 300,000 gallons. The Water Department's income is de- 
rived from water rents. 



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CIVIC CENTER — JONES FALLS AND KEY 

HIGHWAYS 



I^S^g^^HOSE charged with the administration of the 
^^^City Government have given much thought to 
the future. What is done is done on a large 
scale. Every succeedmg day finds the City a 
bigger, better, busier Baltimore, and improvements are made 
with a comprehensive idea of the demands of the future. They 
are, as nearly as human calculation can make them, for all 
time. 

The development now going on is in accordance with a pre- 
conceived plan of city building. Certain details are in charge 
of a Commission on City Plan. One of the most important 
features in the City betterment plan was the recent covering 
of the stream (Jones Falls) which formerly flowed in an open 
channel through the center of the City. The flow is now 
through three concrete tubes, consisting in part, of the largest 
drainage tunnel in the world. 

The top of these conduits and tunnel is now a highway of 
a minimum width of 1^ feet. This drive will provide a direct 
highway on an easy grade running diagonally across the City 
from the docks to the railroad termmals. This great improve- 
ment is a part of an elaborate and connected scheme of future 
development, the main feature of which is a Civic Center to 
the east of the City Hall. To the west, forming a part of the 
general plan, are the Postoffice and Baltimore's three-million- 
dollar Courthouse. 

Another project of importance in which the City is now 
engaged is the construction of Key Highway, a wide thorough- 
fare extending from Light street, along or very near the water- 
front, to Fort McHenry — a distance of several miles. 



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This highway, named for Francis Scott Key, author of 
"The Star-Spangled Banner," will open up a splendid avenue 
of approach to the southern side of Baltimore's extensive harbor. 
A system of railroad tracks and switches, which are to be in- 
stalled, will place all plants, piers, etc., in direct touch with 
railroad systems. 




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BALTIMORE'S MUNICIPAL DOCKS 

The Municipal clocks of Baltimore are not mere ornaments. 
They are not solely colossal specimens of engmeering skill. 
They are for use. When the City put acres of land under 
water and spent its millions, its object was, and is, to provide 
the best maritime terminals that could be built. These docks 
may be leased by any responsible parties for 36 cents a square 
foot per year. Those who have not seen the great marine 
stations have little idea of their magnitude, and it is important 
to remember that they are not a private monopoly, and are not 
controlled by private parties to selfish ends. The City of Balti- 
more OWNS them and throws them open to the commerce of 
the world. Those who would enter the shipping business here 
have the first and most vexatious problem, namely, terminal 
facilities, solved in advance. Magnificent docks are available. 

Prior to the fire of 1904 the City owned little wharf 
property of importance. The fire made it possible to acquire 
all of the burned district fronting on the harbor (about 4,000 
lineal feet). The City purchased the property, removed all 
buildings, streets, etc., and laid out a system of public wharves 
and docks along Pratt street. These are situated in the upper 
harbor and are intended for the coastwise and bay trade. The 
transatlantic steamers, at present, find ample accommodations 
at the railroad piers in the lower harbor. 

Pier 4, at the foot of Market Place, is 150 feet wide. 
Along Market Place the City has erected three handsome, 
commodious buildings, a retail market, a fish market, a whole- 
sale market, all within a stone's throw of Pier 4, which is set 
apart for the use of the market boats. 

A two-story recreation pier at the foot of Broadway will 
be completed early in 1914. The lower floor of this structure 
is to be used for commercial purposes; the upper section for 
a recreation center. 



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MUNICIPAL FACTORY SITE COMMISSION 

[fi^i^pS^^HE City Government has a specially organized 
^^^ department that handles all industrial problems. 
^^ It is a public agency created for the purpose of 
(^^^^:^ promoting any movement that has for its end the 
development or enlargement of Baltimore's industrial activities. 

It is a department of the City Government; supported by 
the City Government. There are no charges, costs nor fees 
connected with its work. 

Any service performed by the department or any informa- 
tion given by the department is absolutely free of any financial 
burden to the person who seeks its aid or takes advantage of 
its co-operation. 

If you want to know anythmg about the business possibili- 
ties of Baltimore; if you want to get in touch with the City's 
financial interests ; if you want to know what factory sites are 
in the market; in fact, if you want to know anything at all 
about any phase of the industrial affairs of the City or any of 
the problems incident thereto — communicate with the Municipal 
Factory Site Commission, City Hall. 

You will find it ready to give help in any particular or In 
any direction whatsoever. 

The Commission is organized on a basis that puts it in 
touch with all the different business interests in Baltimore. 

It is composed of a member of the Chamber of Commerce; 
a member of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association; 
a member of the Travelers and Merchants' Association; a 
member of the Old Town Merchants and Manufacturers' 
Association; a member of the Federation of Labor; a member 
of the Builders' Exchange; a member of the Real Estate 
Exchange; a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad; a 



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representative of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; a repre- 
sentative of the Western Maryland Railroad. 

The Commission has a finely-developed system under which 
a wide range of factory sites is listed. Real estate dealers, as 
well as prospective manufacturers, are constantly referring to 
the Commission's list whenever they have inquiries for industrial 
property. 

The City itself controls about one hundred and seventy 
acres of waterfront territory with direct railroad connections. 

The Commission is in touch with a combination of magnifi- 
cent buildings which have been converted into "beehive in- 
dustrial colonies." All of the most modern appliances, power 
and other manufacturing advantages are readily available on 
attractive terms. These buildings are situated near the junction 
of two railroads. 

The Factory Site Commission will put anyone in touch with 
any of the above propositions. 

MUNICIPAL JOURNAL 

The City is issuing a semi-monthly publication known as 
the Municipal Journal. It is devoted to the exploitation 
of facts about the operations of the City Government, and 
through this agency the public, both at home and abroad, is 
kept in intimate touch with all the plans and achievements of 
the Municipal Government. It is also provided with frequent 
reports of all moneys collected and how the same is being spent. 
It is conducted in a manner intended to familiarize Baltimoreans 
with all the most important data about their City. Its columns 
are filled with exceedingly instructive matter which never finds 
its way into the columns of any other publication. It lays be- 
fore its readers things that are planned to be done, as well as 
things that have actually been done, and has established itself 
as an institution of practical value to the community, and the 
community is giving it cordial support. 

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GOVERNMENT OF BALTIMORE 

The government of Baltimore is vested in the Mayor and 
City Council, the corporate entity. 

The Mayor, the Comptroller and City Council are elected by 
the people for a term of four years; so is also the President of 
the Second Branch City Council, who acts in the Mayor's stead 
when the latter is absent and who succeeds to the Mayoralty 
in event of a vacancy during an unexpired term. The Mayor 
appoints all heads of departments, boards, commissions, etc., 
subject to confirmation by the Second Branch. 

Baltimore is divided into 24 wards and four councilmanic 
districts. Each district is composed of six wards. Each ward 
has a representative in the First Branch and each district has 
two in the Second Branch. Including the President, there are 
nine members of the latter body. 

The Board of Estimates, composed of the Mayor, President 
of the Second Branch City Council, Comptroller, City Solicitor 
and City Engineer, is a co-ordinate body and passes on many 
measures in conjunction with the City Council, particularly those 
that relate to finances, granting of franchises and such. 

All contracts are let by the Board of Awards, the personnel 
of which is the same as the Board of Estimates, with the ex- 
ception that the City Register takes the place of the City 
Engineer. 




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SCENES IN DRUID HILL PARK 
Madison Ave. Entrance Columbus Monument and Lake Drive 



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PARKS OF BALTIMORE 

^ii|S£i^j^jALTIMORE has a splendid system of parks. 
I^"^ ^y4;'i: These are one of the features of the City. The 
/^p^B jl reservations are, or will be, all connected; that 
— i=i:^ ::II34/ is, they may be reached one from the other by 
especially constructed boulevards, the w^hole system bemg gener- 
ally referred to as "Baltimore's chain of parks." 

The City for years has been blessed with an abundance of 
park area, but very recently large sections of the suburbs, north 
and west, were acquired, which added many acres of beautiful 
and picturesque territory. In making these purchases Balti- 
more looked far into the future. 

The topography of the country In some instances is almost 
mountainous, with beautiful streams winding in and out, the 
scene retaining much of its natural environment. 

Druid Hill is Baltimore's largest park. It Is famous, for 
among the parks of the country it is unequaled in natural 
beauty. It was purchased in 1 860, and has an area of nearly 
700 acres. 

The rugged scenery of Gwynn's Falls Park, through which 
flows the stream Gwynn's Falls, at times rushing like a torrent, 
arises to challenge Druid Hill's claim to pre-eminent beauty. 
Here nature's handiwork is sublime. 

As has been stated, the scheme of park development em- 
braces, as one of its important features, broad boulevards, 
which represent the most advanced ideas and skill in highway 
construction. 

The parks play an important part in City life, and in their 
administration and management are kept "abreast of the times." 
Many have swimming pools, which are enjoyed by thousands, 
and from which graduate each year scores of youthful expert 
swimmers. There are playgrounds for the tots, and these 



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The Old Johns Hopkins Mansion, Clifton Park 
Swimming Pool in Patterson Park 



View in Riverside Park 
View in Carroll Park 




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especial reservations are under the direction of the Playground 
Association, which has professional instructors or teachers in 
attendance. All the parks are supplied with baseball grounds, 
tennis courts and other facilities for healthy sport. 

The parks are not supported by direct taxation, but from 
the receipts of the street railways, 9 per cent, of the gross 
receipts being devoted to this purpose. The fund thus raised, 
which is increasing yearly at the rate of 6 per cent., can not be 
diverted from the parks. 

This amounts to approximately $500,000 annually, which, 
with other sources of revenue, brings the total available for 
park purposes to $510,000 as a yearly Income, exclusive of 
any loan for park Improvement and enlargement. 

The parks and squares of Baltimore are as follows: 

Acquired. Acreage. 

Mt. Vernon Squares (2) 1815 1.4 

Washington Place Squares (2) 1815 .9 

Eastern City Spring Square 1818 1.3 

Patterson Park 1827 128.44 

Franklin Square 1839 2.3 

Jackson Square 1 844 .6 

Union Square 1 847 2.0 

Broadway Squares (19) 1851 5.7 

Ashland Square 1851 .01 

Madison Square 1853 3.4 

Eutaw Place Squares (9) 1853 5.6 

Lafayette Square 1859 2.9 

Druid Hill Park I860 674.16 

Park Place Squares (5) I860 1.7 

Riverside Park 1862 17.2 

Fulton Avenue Squares (17) 1 866 4.0 

Harlem Park 1869 9.05 

Wilkens Avenue Squares (7) 1870 1.6 

Perkins Spring Square 1873 1.5 

Mt. Royal Squares (7) 1874 2.0 

Johnston Square 1877 2.5 

Federal Hill Park ." 1879 8.2 

Collington Square 1880 5.0 

Liberty Triangle 1 880 .02 

Taney Place Squares (2) 1881 .8 

Mt. Royal Terraces (3) 1884 2.0 

Carroll Park , , , , 1890 176.74 



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PARKS — Continued. Acquired. Acreage. 

Bolton Park (Mt. Royal Station) 1891 2.52 

Frick Triangle 1892 .05 

Brewer Square 1 892 .39 

Bo-Lln Square 1893 .23 

Maple Place 1893 .07 

Clifton Park 1895 267.26 

Linden Avenue Triangle 1895 .01 

Green Spring Avenue 1896 25.5 

Callow Triangle 1898 .03 

Gwynn's Falls Park 1902 389.9 

Latrobe Park 1902 13.80 

Swann Park 1902 11.31 

Wyman Park 1903 198.39 

Fifth Regiment Armory 1904 .25 

City College Lot 1904 .14 

Riggs Triangle 1905 .02 

Venable Park 1907 60.81 

Ashburton Park (including Reservoir) 1907 92.65 

Herring Run Park 1908 164.61 

Charles Street Boulevard 1908 2.28 

Philadelphia Road Triangle 1910 1.0 

Easterwood Park 1911 7.52 

Mondawmin Squares 1911 .26 

Total Park Acreage 2,3C0.02 




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BALTIMORE A HEALTHY CITY 

l^'^ipS^j^j ALTIMORE is naturally an unusually healthy 
5^ lll^^^^-: City, but nature has an ally in the form of a 
I//^mC^M)i Department of Health, which for effective work 
l^^^^l^^^;;:^;; and successful results is second to none. The 
Health Department of Baltimore is regarded as a model. It 
wages its warfare with thoroughly modern and scientific methods. 
*'Nip in the bud" is its slogan. With the combination — nature, 
vigilance and science — enlisted on the side of health, pestilence 
and epidemic are unknown. This is all the more gratifying 
when it is recalled that Baltimore is an immigrant port. To 
fight against the importation of disease there are very strict 
regulations. The Quarantine Station, connected with the Health 
Department, is some distance from the City, and all incoming 
vessels are boarded and must be given a clean bill of health 
by a medical officer representing the Municipality before they 
are allowed to proceed. 

Exceptional measures to combat tuberculosis are applied, 
and a corps of vigilant nurses is constantly working throughout 
the City with this object in view. These efforts have been 
crowned with the most gratifying results. In fact, the State, 
City and private organizations are rendering splendid service 
in the prevention of tuberculosis. There is in operation a 
Municipal hospital (Sydenham) for the treatment of infectious 
diseases. Exceptionally effective laws are enforced in the in- 
terest of sanitation. Inspectors pass upon edibles offered for 
sale to determine whether they are fit for consumption. If not, 
they are destroyed summarily. There is also a regulation which 
prescribes the quality of milk that may be sold, and inspectors 
with facilities for making tests are constantly at work. 

A department for the treatment of rabies or hydrophobia is 
connected with one of the hospitals. Nearly all cases of this 
dread malady brought to this hospital are successfully treated. 

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BALTIMORE HOSPITALS 

The hospitals of Baltimore are by no means the least of 
its features. The City, to the contrary, has delevoped into 
a mecca to which persons requirmg the most scientific treat- 
ment come in search of cure, and thousands from afar are 
entered as patients yearly. Some of the most distinguished 
men and women of the country have come to Baltimore in 
search of health, and have gone away singing praises of Balti- 
more hospitals. The City is very proud of its development 
and equipment in this respect, for to be a leader in the world's 
work for humanity is a very enviable reputation to enjoy. 

The great Johns Hopkins Hospital is a Baltimore institu- 
tion. It is known all over civilization and has an unexcelled 
record of accomplishment. This establishment has many de- 
partments, one of the most recent of which is The Henry 
Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; for the erection and endowment of 
the building Mr. Henry Phipps donated nearly one million 
dollars. The purpose of this clinic is primarily for the study 
of nervous and mental diseases and affords exceptional oppor- 
tunities for scientific treatment of these cases. Its laboratories 
are equipped with every modern appliance known to medical 
science. 

As stated elsewhere, Baltimore makes especial effort to com- 
bat tuberculosis, and several large State and City sanatoriums 
are devoted to this purpose; while Sydenham Hospital, sup- 
ported by the City and under the direction of the Commissioner 
of Health, treats infectious diseases exclusively. 

Some of the other leading hospitals are: 

Presbyterian Eye and Ear Infirmary, Hebrew Hospital, 

Maryland General Hospital, University of Maryland Hospital, 

St. Luke's Hospital, Union Protestant Infirmary, 

Franklin Square Hospital, United States Marine Hospital, 

Church Home and Infirmary, Quarantine Hospital, 

Mercy Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital. 



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BALTIMORE PUBLIC BATHS 

The Public Baths of Baltimore represent one of the chief 
agencies in the City for the promotion of health and cleanli- 
ness. The system provides for cleansing baths, which are open 
all the year round in congested City districts, and recreative 
swimming pools, open during the summer. 

There are six indoor cleansing baths, which contain 225 
cabins and accommodate 650,000 patrons annually, erected 
at a cost of $200,000. 

There are also five recreative swimming baths in parks and 
on the riverfront, which have 250,000 patrons annually. Four 
portable baths (which scheme originated in Baltimore) are 
small houses carried from one street corner to another in 
crowded sections. They afford hot and cold water shower 
baths to over 75,000 persons yearly. 

Two recreative centers in public parks are also equipped 
with shower and swimming baths. The one at Patterson Park 
has the largest artificial swimming pool in the United States. 
The annual cost to the City for maintenance of the entire 
Public Bath System is about $40,000. 




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PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

In providing educational facilities for children, most liberal 
provision is made, and a compulsory educational law is strictly 
enforced. The schools are of exceptionally high standard. 
There are kindergartens for the very young. Night schools 
for those who have advanced in years, but not correspondingly 
in scholastic attainment. A summer vacation school and a 
vocational school are a part of the system. The course of 
public school training terminates with graduation from the City 
College, Polytechnic Institute or the Girls' High Schools. 

Teachers entering the educational service are not only re- 
quired to be proficient along general lines, but they must take 
a two-year course of training in the Teachers' Training School. 

There were 84,000 pupils and 2,064 teachers during the 
last scholastic year. There are 1 44 schools of all kinds. 




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FIRE DEPARTMENT 

Baltimore's Fire Department has been officially declared by 
experts to be one of the most thorough in the United States. 
It has all known mechanical devices for fighting fires. 

The high-pressure pipe line, which has been extended over 
an area of 1 70 acres in the business district (completed 1912), 
is the latest device and the most modern auxiliary of the fire- 
fighting establishment of the City. 

The pipe line system consists of three powerful pumps, which 
force water through large pipes at tremendous pressure. These 
pipes are, of course, all underground, but are tapped at inter- 
vals of 1 70 feet and connected with hydrants that bring the 
water to the surface. The hydrants, which are depressed be- 
low the sidewalk and protected by covers that can be easily 
removed, are systematically placed through the "down-town" 
district. There are at present 226 hydrants, and the number 
will be increased as the system is extended. Water, under 
great pressure, may be thrown m or against a building by 
means of various nozzle devices connected directly to the 
hydrants or with hose especially adapted to pipe line service. 

Baltimore has spent $1,000,000 on its pipe line. Insurance 
rates in the area protected by the service have been greatly 
reduced. 

The personnel of the Fire Department is of the highest type. 
Recruits must pass an examination, mental and physical, before 
entering, and the training which they subsequently receive makes 
them exceptionally fit for their exacting duties. 

The department consists of 40 engine companies, 1 8 hook 
and ladders, two fire boats, two water towers, two automobile 
hose companies, automobiles for the chief, deputy and district 
chiefs. The force numbers 860 men. Automobile tractors 
are replacing horses at the rate of ten tractors a year. 

An exclusive feature in connection with the signal system is 
a portable telephone which may be connected to the fire alarm 
boxes in the high pressure zone to establish communication with 
headquarters. Each company carries one of these portable 
telephones. 

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POLICE DEPARTMENT 

The Police Department of Baltimore consists of 1 , 1 29 per- 
sons, all told, from Commissioners down. The department, 
though supported by the City of Baltimore, is under the direc- 
tion of a board appointed by the Governor of the State. 

The department is splendidly disciplined, and its adminis- 
tration is along thoroughly modern lines. There are "traffic 
officers" stationed at all points where traffic is congested. Their 
duty is to "keep things movmg." These officers have large 
powers. They may summarily arrest any who show a dispo- 
sition not to obey to the letter the very exacting traffic laws. 
The officer keeps vehicles and cars "on the move" or stops 
them by whistle signals. In this way the problem is solved to 
the best advantage. The immovable "jam" that formerly 
occurred on down-town streets is now absent. Cars, great 
motor vans, automobiles and the collection of miscellaneous 
vehicles that crowd the thoroughfares pass along without con- 
fusion and unnecessary delay. 

Aside from the traffic squad and main body of the force, 
there are mounted police, motorcycle men and automobile patrol 
wagons; a harbor patrol, which uses a steamer and a gasoline 
launch. 

Police headquarters are at the Courthouse. Here the Police 
Board, the Marshal and the detectives are located. 





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BALTIMORE'S WIRES UNDERGROUND 

In maintaining its own electrical conduit system, Baltimore 
stands unique as being the first American City of importance 
to provide underground accommodation for wires and cables 
transmitting all classes of electrical energy. 

The entire central portion of the City is served by the 
Municipal system, and the work of laymg extensions to the 
more remote sections is progressing rapidly. Three million dol- 
lars have already been invested in the plan, and during the 
fall of 1912 the people of the City approved an additional 
loan of $2,000,000 to be expended in a continuation of the 
work. 

By virtue of certain Legislative enactment, it is made manda- 
tory on the part of wire-operating corporations and individuals 
to remove, upon notice of the completion of the system in 
various given districts, their poles and overhead wires and, in 
substitution therefor, to install cables in the conduits. The 
electric light and power, telephone and telegraph companies, 
realizing the advantages to be derived in the way of greater 
protection and more facile access to their equipment, heartily 
co-operate with the City authorities in the prosecution of the 
work. Furthermore, the Municipal ownership of the system 
insures a uniform and reasonable rate of rental for the under- 
ground space thus provided. 





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SECTION OF BALTIMORE'S $11,000,000 DOCK SYSTEM 
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(Industrial Section) 

INDUSTRIAL ADVANTAGES OF BALTIMORE 

i'^^.'S MANUFACTURER must have facilities for 
assembling raw material at his plant. He must 
have facilities for gettmg a finished product on 
the market, and he must have a MARKET. 

Baltimore furnishes these accessories. 

First — The City has splendid railroad service in all direc- 
tions. It offers transportation facilities by water that are un- 
excelled. It is a great seaport, foreign and coastwise. It also 
utilizes the great Chesapeake Bay and its numerous tributaries, 
thus connecting with scores of towns and landings, penetrating 
far into Maryland and Virginia. 

Second — Baltimore is the natural feeder of its immediate 
vicinity in all directions. It has at home about 700,000 persons 
for whom it must provide ; but it has another natural market 
— that tremendous area to the South and Southwest and West. 
This is Baltimore's undisputed sphere of industrial and com- 
mercial influence. 

Third — No Chinese Wall, in the form of excessive freight 
rates, separates the manufacturer from his market. Baltimore 
enjoys lower rates than other cities, as the table of comparative 
rates, given elsewhere in this book, will show. 

Fourth — The manufacturer in Baltimore is not harrassed by 
labor troubles. 

Fifth — Manufacturing implements — machinery, apparatus, 
mechanical tools actually employed in the manufacture of 
articles of commerce — are not taxed in Baltimore for City 
purposes. 

Sixth — Insurance rates on manufacturing and mercantile es- 
tablishments in Baltimore are lower relatively than in other 
cities. 

Seventh — Power, fuel and light are cheap. Wheels turn 
more economically in Baltimore than anywhere else. 

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BALTIMORE'S TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 

The business associations of Baltimore, particularly the large 
central bodies, are important elements in the City's commercial 
and industrial life. There are a number of such organizations 
and they exert a tremendous influence. Though they have their 
respective spheres, they are bound by ties of business and social 
relationship. By cohesive action and unity of purpose they 
have time and again made their influence felt to the mutual 
benefit of the City and the thousands who maintain business 
relations with it. Through them the business interests of Balti- 
more operate upon an organized and systematized basis. The 
good effect is not merely local, for Baltimore is the great com- 
mercial and industrial headquarters of thousands of miles of 
territory. 

Organization and combined force have not only helped those 
who trade in Baltimore, but are largely responsible for placing 
the City in the front rank of the great commercial centers of 
the country. 

The usefulness of these associations is not confined to the 
avenues of trade. They have been aggressively active in the 
many successful projects for the proper civic development of 
Baltimore, and are vital forces in the City's welfare, 





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SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRIES 
Drydock Dewey Magnetic Cranes General View, Md. Steel Co.'s Plant 

A Baltimore Built Ship 




BALTIMORE'S GREAT INDUSTRIES 



MANY ENTERPRISES FLOURISH IN THIS 
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT 



Baltimore leads in Canning and Preserving; Millions worth of Fertilizer 
shipped; the great Straw Hat Industry; foremost Clothing Manu- 
facturing Centre; Copper Refining; large Cotton Duck Plants; 
Steel Rails; Shipbuilding Interests, etc.; cheap Light and Fuel; no 
Labor Troubles. 



[QC^^^^Wd HERE are within the City limits of Baltimore 
cQ^ (31/^ square miles) 2502 manufacturing estab- 
r^<3 lishments, comprising 123 specific industries, em- 
(^%:=^:^ ploying 81 ,843 wag-e-earners, who are paid annu- 
ally $41,747,000. The annual value of their output is 
$188,o90,000. The capital represented by these enterprises 
amounts to $165,293,000, not including the value of rented 
buildings. The Baltimore Industrial District ( 1 5 miles square, 
contiguous to and including the City) produces annually manu- 
factured products to the value of $265,000,000. This makes 
Baltimore one of the foremost industrial centers of the United 
States. 



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Chesapeake Bay Pungies Unloading tropical fruits Immigrants disembarking 




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LEADS IN CANNING AND PRESERVING 

Baltimore ranks first among the cities of the United States in 
the canning and preserving industry, which employs thousands 
of workers. Its annual product is valued at millions of dollars. 

MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHING 

In the manufacture of clothing Baltimore occupies a leading 
position, the value of this product amounting to $41,000,000 
annually. This industry employs 24,000 persons. Most of 
this clothing is of the higher grades. There are 325 establish- 
ments, some of them the largest in the world. 

SHIPS MOST FERTILIZER 

More fertilizer is shipped from Baltimore than from the 
combined manufacturing plants of any other State. 

THE GREAT STRAW HAT INDUSTRY 

The straw hat industry is represented by establishments em<. 
ploying thousands of hands, producing millions of dollars' 
worth of goods yearly. 

COPPER 

The copper smelting and refining works and copper- 
smithing in Baltimore represent for plants an investment of 
$20,000,000. Baltimore has the largest copper refining plant 
in America. 

Copper exported from Baltimore during the year ending 
October 31, 1913, amounted to 134,000 tons. 

Baltimore's industrial activity extends to so many branches 
that it is impossible to discourse specifically upon all, but the 
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the City leads, and in all occupies a foremost position as a 
producer : 

IRON AND STEEL 

FERTILIZER 

STRAW HATS 

CLOTHING 

CANDY 

COPPER 

CANS 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS SOAP 

BOTTLE STOPPERS SHOES 

OYSTER INDUSTRY 

COTTON DUCK 

MEDICINES 

GAS ENGINES 

UMBRELLAS 

STEEL RAILS 

DRUGS, SPICES, TEAS, COFFEE ROASTING 
CANVAS AND LEATHER BELTING 

SLAUGHTERING AND MEAT PACKING 

SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS, LUMBER 
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING 

FLOUR AND GRIST MILLS 

BREAD AND BAKERIES 
FURNITURE 

CAR BUILDING 

GAS RANGES, WATER HEATERS AND GAS METERS 
GLASSWARE, BOTTLES AND WINDOW GLASS 

STOVES, RANGES AND PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES 
CANNING AND PRESERVING VEGETABLES 

MACHINERY AND MACHINISTS' SUPPLIES 
TOBACCO (cigars AND CIGARETTES) 
SHIRTS, OVERALLS, ETC. 

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ELECTRIC POWER FROM THE SUSQUEHANNA 

l^i^S^^ HERE has been developed for Baltimore a 
3^ tremendous source of electric energy. Across 
icjpi the Susquehanna River, at McCall Ferry, is the 
iC^ ^==^ ^^^ third longest dam in the vv^orld, exceeded only 
by the dams at Keokuk, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, and at 
Assouan, on the Nile. Behind this barrier, w^hich is half a 
mile long, 55 feet high and 65 feet thick, the Susquehanna 
River forms a lake eight miles in length. 

Their foundations resting on the bed rock of the river, the 
power-house and dam contain 300,000 cubic yards of con- 
crete. The power-house provides space for ten units, with a 
total maximum capacity of 1 35,000 horse-power. 

From McCall Ferry, in a straight line, the steel towers and 
the aluminum cables of the transmission line stretch to Balti- 
more, 40 miles away, where the harnessed river drives the 
wheels of the City's industries and lights the homes and streets. 

Independent steam generating stations, storage batteries and 
an unexcelled distribution system assure adequate, efficient, 
never-failing service. Baltimore offers the manufacturer cheap 
electric power in abundance. The rates for electric power in 
Baltimore are the lowest on the Atlantic Seaboard. 

The harnessed river furnishes the power necessary to propel 
the street cars of the extensive transit system of Baltimore and 
its suburbs. Power from the Susquehanna moves the trains in 
the Belt Line Tunnel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 
beneath the City of Baltimore, one of the earliest electrically- 
operated tunnels in the world. The entire power requirements 
of the Maryland Electric Railways Company, which operates 
the converted steam road connecting Baltimore with Annapolis, 
come from the same source. 

Abundant power at low rates, with an efficient and compre- 
hensive service, gives Baltimore a tremendous advantage, which 
no manufacturer can afford to overlook. 

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NO LABOR TROUBLES 

Baltimore has practically no labor troubles. After the 
great fire, the City was rebuilt without one strike. Owing to 
conditions that obtain in no other large community, the capitalist 
and laborer maintain a status which enables them to operate to 
their mutual interest, and to the benefit of the whole industrial 
situation. 

Baltimore seems totally unaffected by those periodic gusts of 
labor agitation that sweep over one section of the country or 
another, unsettling conditions, causing industrial distress and 
financial loss. 

The City is exceptionally fortunate in this respect, primarily 
because of natural conditions. The working class is enabled to 
live well. The abundance of seasonable foodstuffs at reason- 
able prices, cheap rents, the opportunity to buy homes on the 
easiest terms are elements which contribute to the contented 
condition of the laboring man. In Baltimore he gets the most 
out of life for himself and his family. The average laborer 
owns his home. Tenements are practically unknown. Then 
there is plenty of work and plenty of workmen. 

Industrial tranquillity lasts the year round. 




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BALTIMORE'S FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 

Few cities enjoy the enviable reputation of Baltimore for 
sound financial methods, or have a larger number of success- 
fully conducted banks and trust companies. Baltimore is noted 
for its excellent banking facilities. 

There has not been a bank failure in Baltimore for many 
years, and the conflagration of 1 904, which caused a loss esti- 
mated at $125,000,000, resulted in no embarrassment to the 
City's financial organizations, except that arising from the 
destruction of buildings. 

There is ample capital in Baltimore for legitimate enter- 
prises. It is not a City given to the encouragement of "wildcat" 
schemes, but sound projects can find substantial backing. 

BONDING 

The first bonding or surety company was organized in Bal- 
timore. This City occupies a commanding position in this 
branch of finance. 

Millions of dollars are invested here in bonding enterprises. 
The assets of numerous companies total millions. They have 
branches practically all over the world; in fact, Baltimore is 
the bonding headquarters of the world. 

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS 

Baltimore has a series of modern "Industrial" or "Beehive" 
buildings, whe^e heat, light, power and space in proportion to 
the large or small needs of any and all kinds of industries can 
be had on terms and conditions attractive even to infant enter- 
prises. This enables enterprises to be started without the usual 
capital outlay required for investment in land and building. It 
offers to local industries and to those outside the City, desiring 
to establish operations here, every essential factory requiremen: 
that can be obtained by the most successful manufacturers. 

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(.Commercial Section) 

COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION 




A Splendid Harbor; Grain rapidly handled; low Freight Rales; 
Magnificent Piers; Steamship Lines; Great Railroads, with termi- 
nals at deep water, centre in Baltimore; Colossal Municipal Piers; 
Great Jobbing Trade; Plants and Machinery Exempt from Taxa- 
tion, etc. 

^•^Tlip™^^^.- ^ reason of its geographical location, the City, 
^ LMji^B^^^' trom the very first days of the "iron horse," be- 
//^^Pq) J )) came a railroad center. It has, also, always been 
[ iL--^^^ ^^^^;^->£;: one of the important seaports of the country. 

That Baltimore lived and thrived may be attributed to its 
natural maritime advantages. It early became a distributing 
point for merchandise that came over all seas and from all 
lands. It sent, and still sends, back ships burdened with 
products of every section of this country. 

Long before steam became the propelling force of commerce, 
Baltimore's supremacy was assured. The Baltimore clipper 
was famous ; it was sailing every sea and was seen in every port. 

The City has a largely-developed trade in every respect, 
particularly through the South. Being of the South, this seems 
natural, but Baltimore is not dependent upon sentiment alone. 

As the metropolis of the South, Baltimore is the natural 
source of supply of this section, and its trade throughout the 
vast country is large and ever-increasing. Nor is Baltimore's 
sphere of commercial influence confined to the great region 
south of the Mason and Dixon Line. Its merchants are invad- 
ing the North. They have captured a good percentage of 
trade of Pennsylvania and New York State, and are success- 
fully operating in the Ohio Valley. 

As a jobbing center, Baltimore ranks third among the 
cities of the United States. Its trade represents approximately 
$400,000,000 annually. 

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THE HARBOR OF BALTIMORE 

Baltimore has a splendid harbor. The channel leading from 

Baltimore is 35 feet deep and 600 feet wide, and there is a 

project under way to deepen it to 40 feet and to make it 
1 000 feet wide. 

Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, a tributary of Chesa- 
peake Bay, and is about 150 nautical miles from the Atlantic 
Ocean as vessels travel. The harbor may be said to begin 
where the Patapsco and the bay meet, about 1 4 miles from 
the center of the City. 

There are 1 8 miles of dockage and waterfront within the 
contracted City limits, and many times that area in the im- 
mediate environs. 

Baltimore harbor, even within the City limits proper, can 
accommodate the largest vessels. Such, for instance, as liners 
of 20,000 tons displacement or more enter and leave Balti- 
more harbor. Baltimore has a busy waterfront. It is very 
picturesque and is a shelter for all manner of craft, from the 
ponderous Atlantic liner to the Chesapeake Bay oyster pungy. 




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GRAIN RAPIDLY HANDLED 

Baltimore has long been justly famous for handling quanti- 
ties of export grain and has largely contributed to the nation's 
wealth through these facilities. Railroads had the foresight 
to build the present terminal elevators, which have a capacity 
of 5,000,000 bushels, and to properly equip them with dryers 
to give "out of condition" grain deserved attention. They also 
established great terminal yards with facilities for rapid and 
safe unloading of cars. The elevators can place 2,000,000 
bushels of grain aboard vessels in a day, and this capacity will 
soon be increased. Vessels are loaded while in deep water 
alongside the elevators, avoiding the use of lighters and floatmg 
elevators. The railroads have m every other way supported 
the efforts of grain merchants, who, for years, have labored 
to make this a favored market for domestic and export grain. 

Baltimore Chamber of Commerce weighing and inspection 
departments are models of their kind, giving confidence and 
security at home and abroad. 

Much Canadian grain comes to Baltimore for export and is 
handled so satisfactorily that tonnage is constantly increasing. 

On grain for export from the Great Lakes there is a differ- 
ence of three-tenths of a cent per bushel in Baltimore's favor, 
compared with New York and Boston. Nine-tenths is the 
present difference in Baltimore's favor on grain from the West, 
arriving all rail. 




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SPLENDID RAILROAD TERMINAL FACILITIES 

\^-ijjpii^im^M ALTIMORE is the local and reshipping market 
jjv IMji^^^^-: for the fish, oyster and crab supplies of the fertile 
Ii/^^C^B)] ^^^^^^ °^ ^^^ Chesapeake Bay and tributary rivers 
|L-^^^^^ |-— ^;; and streams. 

The railroads, Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania and West- 
ern Maryland, have carfloats, large docks with warehouses, 
cranes and facilities for receiving, storing and shipping all kinds 
of raw material and manufactured articles. Lighterage com- 
panies have a multiplicity of tugs, scows and lighters, expediting 
commerce of the port. 

The Baltimore and Ohio system has domestic and export 
elevators, hay sheds, terminals and storage warehouses, coal 
piers, and maintains general offices in Baltimore. The Balti- 
more and Ohio freight yards are extensive and reach all por- 
tions of the City. About 10,000 employees are located in 
Baltimore. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad system has division offices in 
Baltimore and extensive terminals. The company's export and 
domestic elevators, hay sheds and many terminal and storage 
warehouses are of the usual high type, and a new passenger 
station facilitates travel. 

The Western Maryland Railway, like the other railroads 
above named, has freight terminals in the business district and 
storage warehouses at convenient locations. In addition, docks 
and warehouses on the waterfront give it opportunities for 
prompt handling of export, import and domestic shipments. 

The co-operation between the Western Maryland and New 
\ork Central lines through the extension from Cumberland to 
Connellsville, and connection with the Pittsburgh and Lake 
Erie Railroad, greatly benefits Baltimore, since new tonnage is 



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NEW UNION STATION. PENNA. R. R. 




MT. ROYAL STATION. B. & O. R. R. 




TH& BALTlMORLEr BOOK 

handled between Baltimore and the West under attractive 
conditions. 

The Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, operating be- 
tween Baltimore and York, Pa. {11 miles), has a large dairy 
and slate, as well as suburban passenger, business. 

The Canton Railroad is a terminal railroad of Baltimore 
offering connecting line switching service on advantageous terms 
to industries located on the extensive waterfront property of the 
Canton Company. 

PLANTS AND MACHINERY THAT ARE EXEMPT 
FROM TAXATION 

Under a City Ordinance, authorized by an Act of Assembly, 
mechanical tools, implements, machinery and manufacturing 
apparatus, actually employed in the manufacture of articles of 
commerce in Baltimore, are exempted from City taxes, pro- 
vided application be made annually before a specified time. 

Following is a table of exemptions from 1896 to 1913: 

1896 $3,405,055 

1897 4,695,518 

1898 4,829,912 

1899 4,178,945 

1900 5.593,270 

1 901 4,67 1 .730 

1902 4.875,396 

1903 5,734,446 

1904 6,203,784 

1905 6,177,262 

1906 7,527,328 

1907 8,067.442 

1908 8 842,573 

1909 8,878,644 

1910 9,434,978 

191 1 9,829,312 

1912 10.406,817 

1913 11.415,660 

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COAL AND COKE 

The position Baltimore occupies in its ability to move, by 
rail and water, bitummous coal from the enormous deposits 
in Maryland and West Virginia gives the City a commanding 
position in the soft coal trade. There are 5,000,000 tons of 
coal annually exported from Baltimore. 

Baltimore consumes 1 ,000,000 tons a year. 

The United States Collier Neptune recently took on at one 
of the coal piers 15,000 tons in one day. 

The short haul on coke from the ovens to Baltimore and 
nearness of limestone deposits make this City an ideal place for 
the smelting of ore from Cuba and Spain. Steel can be manu- 
factured into railroad supplies under advantageous conditions 
and sent by water at low cost to home and foreign ports. 




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STEAMSHIP LINES 

Baltimore, being one of the great ports of the Atlantic 
Coast, is in constant commercial intercourse with all parts of 
the world. There is a score or more hnes of steamships en- 
gaged regularly in foreign trade, and they are represented by 
a multiplicity of vessels. 

Foreign steamship lines having regular sailings from Balti- 
more are: 

Johnston Line, Baltimore to Liverpool. 
North German Lloyd, Baltimore to Bremen. 
Holland-America Line, Baltimore to Rotterdam. 
Lord Line, Baltimore to Belfast, Cardiff and Dublin. 
Atlantic Transport Line, Baltimore to Havre and London. 
Hamburg-American Line, Baltimore to Hamburg. 
United Fruit Co. Line, Baltimore to Port Antonio, Jamaica. 
Red Star Line, Baltimore to Antwerp. 
Furness Line, Baltimore to Leith. 
Creole Line, Baltimore to Italy. 

English-American Line, Baltimore to Huelva, Spain. 
Scandinavian-America Line, Baltimore to Copenhagen. 
United Fruit Company, Baltimore to Santo Domingo. 
Atlantic Fruit Company, Baltimore to Jamaica. 
Atlantic Fruit Company, Baltimore to Cuban ports. 
Munson Line, Baltimore to Havana and Colon. 
Earn Line, Baltimore to the West Indies. 
Lanasa & Goffe Importing and Steamship Company, Balti- 
more to Port Antonio, Jamaica, and Cuban ports. 

Aside from the above, there are hundreds of steamships of 
the "tramp" or transient class, which are constantly arriving or 
leaving port; also that rapidly vanishing class of vessels, the 
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Steamships which regularly ply between Baltimore and 
Atlantic Coast ports are fitted for first-class passenger service 
as well as freight. Commodious steamers leave daily, going 
north and south, carrying hundreds of passengers and tons of 
freight. 

It is estimated that 1 3,000 craft of all character sail be- 
tween Baltimore and pomts on Chesapeake Bay and its tribu- 
taries. These vessels traverse all navigable waters of Mary- 
land and Virginia, touching at the larger cities and numerous 
obscure landings. Bay steamers, as a rule, are large and 
modern, having excellent passenger accommodations. The 
oyster pungy, other small sailing craft and a multitude of 
power boats carry much of Baltimore's Chesapeake Bay com- 
merce. 




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The country is very picturesque and offers limitless opportunities for splendid 

development 




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{Domestic Section) 

LIVING CONDITIONS 




Baltimore a City of Owned Homes; Reasonable Food Prices; Cheap 
Rents and Fine Markets; Excellent Street Car Service; Excep- 
tionally Good Climate; Oysters, Crabs and all Edibles in Abund- 
ance; Baltimore offers a Great Opportunity to "Live Well." 



S&?^£^^?PT has been stated that Baltimore is a City of 
• y ^ homes. It is more than this. Bahimore is a City 
^''^^^ of OWNED homes. Houses of any class maybe 
^^:2#J purchased upon terms that place OWNERSHIP 
within reach of the most humble wage-earner. 

The report of the British Board of Trade, which made an 
exhaustive inquiry into the cost of living in American cities, 
lends force to this statement. It says: 

"House ownership among the working classes of Baltimore 
has made great progress, and among American cities Baltimore 
claims to take a leading place in this respect. 

*Tn 1900, 20.5 per cent, of all private dwellings in the 
City were owned unencumbered by their occupants; 7.4 per 
cent, were owned, but encumbered, while 72.1 per cent, were 
hired. The number of building loan societies is very large, 
some 200 having meeting places in the City. 

"The future owner (purchaser) must, as a rule, provide 
about one-third of the proposed cost of the dwelling, and the 
society advances the balance and issues shares to the same 
amounts, upon which interest of 6 per cent, is charged until 
they are paid up; but in the meantime the borrower is entitled 
to dividends upon these shares. 

"The single family dwellings enjoy an absolute predomi- 
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*'In 1900 the percentage of families in dwelling-houses occu- 
pied by one family was 72.6, while the percentage in dwelling- 
houses occupied by two families was 20, and the percentage in 
dwelling-houses occupied by three of more families was 7.4." 

This same report goes on and describes Baltimore as a "City 
of practically no tenements,'* as the tenement evil is understood 
in connection with other cities, and is authority for the state- 
ment, which is a well-known and established fact, that a house 
in Baltimore can be rented for about one-half a similar house 
in a like neighborhood can be rented for in New York. 

Baltimoreans, at least, know how to live. Of the 1 1 5,243 
private dwellings in the City, about 50 per cent, are two stories 
in height, modern in every detail, and are usually very attrac- 
tive. Many of the latest styles are "detached," have orna- 
mental bay windows, and each, by law, must be provided with 
a bathtub and the best sanitary appliances. 

A real home in Baltimore is within reach of all. And this 
home is on a good street, in a respectable neighborhood. Balti- 
moreans are not stowed away in the uppermost stories of un- 
healthy, insanitary tenement houses, with dubious and doubtful 
associates under the same roof, and in an atmosphere of social, 
physical and moral impurity. 

Baltimore has many stately mansions amid the environment 
of wealth and dignity, which are very impressive, but the thou- 
sands of small dwellings, sheltering thousands of contented 
families, each dweller in his or her own "castle," offer a 
splendid object-lesson. 

The excellent system of street car lines enables a person to 
reach any part of Baltimore for a 5-cent fare, which also in- 
cludes one free transfer. This is a great boon to the wage- 
earner who desires to live in the open, away from the office, 
factory and workshop. 



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BALTIMORE MARKETS 

The habit of "going to market" is so fixed a custom, and so 
generally practiced as a part of the domestic routine by the 
Baltimore housekeeper, that markets are supported and flourish 
as they do nowhere else. Moreover, the markets, on market 
days, are one of the sights of the City. Few strangers come to 
Baltimore who do not join the picturesque throng at one of 
these centers. To see these markets in "full blast" is indeed in- 
teresting. Not only the markets themselves, but all approaches 
for squares take on the market environment. Along the streets 
are hundreds of wagons, converted into stalls, and scores of 
improvised shops line the curb; the flower girl, the ubiquitous 
faker, the country folk, the thrifty housewife, making her dis- 
criminating purchases, is a spectacle well worth witnessing. 

Lexington Market is the most noted and is, possibly, without 
a serious rival in the country. It is very central, being con- 
tiguous to, in fact within, the retail shopping district. It is 
three squares long, but the market's "sphere of influence'* ex- 
tends for squares in all directions. 

All markets are owned and under the control of the Mu- 
nicipality. 

Centre Market, built after the fire of February, 1 904, on the 
site of Marsh Market, which was destroyed, is a splendid mod- 
ern structure. It cost $500,650 and extends from Baltimore to 
Pratt street, three blocks. There are two great halls over the 
northern (Baltimore street) end, which are used by the night 
classes of the Maryland Institute. Twelve hundred pupils may 
be comfortably accommodated here. There is also another large 
hall above the produce section, which will seat 2500 persons. 
The wholesale and retail fish market, connected with the Centre, 
has been pronounced the most complete in the world. 

The Baltimore markets are: Belair, Canton, Centre, Cross 
Street, Fells Point, Hanover, Hollins, Lafayette, Lexington, 
Northeast, Richmond. 



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A NOTED FOOD SUPPLY CENTER 

■::^'"i|piii^j|S^^ markets are a success because 

i)iw™"^^^' ^^ ^^^ great variety and character of the food- 
/A^^q)B jl stuff s on sale. The investigators for the British 
l^^—n^^^ ^^i:;^:! Board of Trade, who recently made a study of 
living conditions in American cities, were struck by this ad- 
vantage, and in their report said: 

"Baltimore is a noted food supply center — -fruits, vegetables, 
dairy products, poultry and meat are produced in the fertile 
districts of the State of Maryland, and the shores of the Chesa- 
peake are especially favorable for those branches of agriculture. 
The City is remarkable among the large cities of the United 
States for the abundance and varied character of its retail 
markets. In the principal districts of the City are covered 
markets, where all kinds of meat, vegetables, fruit, butter and 
eggs are on sale." 

The report also refers to the extensive patronage enjoyed 
by the markets, and the great number of butcher stalls receive 
particular mention. 

Baltimore is singularly fortunate as lo food supply, as the 
British report says. Things regarded as luxuries elsewhere are 
here matters of every-day commonplace diet. The City being 
situated within two hours' ride of the mountains, and at the very 
door of a great trucking region (the adjacent counties of Mary- 
land), has a wonderful advantage. The great Chesapeake Bay 
and the Patapsco River yield up an enormous supply of crabs, 
oysters and fish. Several lines of steamers bring tropical fruits in 
abundance. Maryland is the home of the terrapm and the 
canvas-back, and Baltimore is the gastronomic center, where 
these delicacies are prepared and where they are consumed in 
large quantities. 

Baltimore offers the best of foodstuffs in abundance; its 
markets bulge with the products of the season; reasonable prices 
make it possible for those of limited income to enjoy the benefits 
of these exceptional advantages, facts that contribute to Balti- 
more's reputation as an exceptionally desirable place of residence. 

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MISCELLANEOUS SECTION 





Population; Baltimore a Leading Educational Center; Aquatic Sports; 
Theatres; Hotels; Churches; Monuments; Climate; Points of Interest; 
Chronological History from 1608 to 1913. 

^^^^^^js^*^^^ VERY unique situation is presented in connection 
with the enumeration of the population of Balti- 
more. According to the United States Census 
Report for 1910, its population within the City 
limits is 558,485; while its population, including those persons 
who reside just beyond the City limits, is 647,884. 

This condition was of sufficient import to call from Director 
Durand of the Census a special report (August, 191 1). In 
this he refers to the distinction to be made in favor of Balti- 
more when comparing the population of cities. The numerical 
peculiarity concerning Baltimore's population arises from the 
fact that its corporate limits have not been extended corre- 
spondingly as the City's inhabitants have multiplied. 

The census reports show that Baltimore has actually grown 
apace, and is the most densely populated City in the country, 
but that thousands of Baltimoreans who live "just over the line" 
are not listed as residents. At the same time they are not 
divided from the corporate limits by squares of unimproved lots, 
but live on well-paved streets, in "built-up" sections which, in 
some instances, extend a mile beyond the present limits. 

According to the census, 90,000 persons thus outside the 
technical bounds are so essentially a part of Baltimore in their 
business and social relations that they should be included when 
a comparison of cities is made. 

Baltimore has 31-3 square miles within its contracted limits, 
and its population within these bounds is, according to the 
census, 558,485. St. Louis, with 61 ^j square miles, twice 
the area of Baltimore, has a population of 687,029. 

St. Louis ranks fourth, but Baltimore would no doubt arise 
to dispute that claim if its area were doubled. 

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BALTIMORE AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER 

Baltimore, as a center of learning, is proud of one of the 
leading institutions of the world — the Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity. This is the foremost mstitution in the United States de- 
voted to research work. 

The great Johns Hopkins Hospital, with its Medical School 
and other educational features, is unequaled by any similar 
organization. It, too, is world famous. 

The Goucher College of Baltimore, formerly the Woman's 
College, has a fixed place among the advanced educational 
institutions of the country. 

The City also boasts of the Peabody Institute, the Mary- 
land Institute of Art and Design, the Walters Art Gallery, 
which is far-famed; the Enoch Pratt Free Library, with its 
multiplicity of branches; the Maryland University, with its 
various departments of learning, and a score of other institu- 
tions devoted to culture and intellectual pursuits. Aside from 
these, there are the Baltimore public schools, with their several 
colleges. These are referred to at length elsewhere. 

There are many medical colleges in Baltimore, as well as 
others devoted to law. The City, in fact, may be aptly de- 
scribed as a "College Town." Thousands of students, repre- 
senting not only this but almost every country of the civilized 
world, have received and are receiving their education in Balti- 
more, which occupies a commanding position in the arts, sciences 
and culture generally. 

For the study of painting, music and sculpture, Baltimore 
offers unexcelled opportunities, and large numbers of pupils 
from various sections are taking advantage of these. 

The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery is the oldest 
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BALTIMORE'S EXCELLENT CLIMATE 

Baltimore has an excellent climate. The City is so situated 
that it does not experience the extremes of weather. It is free 
from the rigors of the North and yet it is not inflicted with the 
continued enervating heat of the South. The changing seasons 
are one of the delights of the locality. There is no monotony; 
no prolonged hot, dry spell to face in summer, and no long, 
dreary, severe winter, with its accompanying hardships. The 
winters are short, being relieved by beautiful spring and fall 
conditions. The rainfall is well distributed throughout the 
year and destructive storms are practically unknown. 

Baltimore is, likewise, free from all other elemental disturb- 
ances, which, in some sections, are a source of constant unrest, 
if not actual peril. 




AMPLE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS 

Baltimore has splendid hotels. In this respect it is abreast 
of any city of the country of its size, and far ahead of the 
majority. 

Just at present it is better equipped than ever, owing to the 
recent establishment of several large hotels. These are great 
institutions, designed on a large scale, built on a large scale, 
and operated in accordance with advanced ideas and methods. 

There are scores of hotels, so the visitor will have no diffi- 
culty finding accommodations at reasonable rates. 

Baltimore as a "Convention City" has entertained thousands 
of visitors without inconvenience to guests, and it is now better 
prepared than ever to assume this agreeable responsibility. 



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AMUSEMENTS-AQUATIC SPORTS-THEATRES 

Miles of waterfront afford Baltimoreans unlimited oppor- 
tunities for aquatic sports. Yachting, boating, crabbing, fishing 
are pastimes within reach of the most humble. 

Any man may have his little power or sail boat, which at 
once extends his suzerainty, not only over the Patapsco River, 
but the great Chesapeake Bay. Here he may disport himself 
at will. Baltimore offers a great opportunity to the man with 
a boat. A race on the Patapsco, between the trained crews 
of rival clubs, is a sight never to be forgotten. 

The pleasure seeker, who disdains the lure of salt water and 
the thrills of the nibble, has a splendid collection of theatres, 
including grand opera, for Baltimore boasts of first-class, whole- 
some amusement features, where the cream of the passing show 
may be seen. The City's theatres are all modern and com- 
modious, and public taste demands and receives the best that 
the stage has to offer. 




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POINTS OF INTEREST IN BALTIMORE 

Note: — The places listed are <ipproximately Contiguous; that is, in 
order named, one is not far removed from another. Hence, it will be 
possible to "swing around the circle" by going fronl point to point, begin- 
ning at Washington Monument. 

Washington Monument (180 feet high) — The first monu- 
ment to George Washington. Charles and Monument streets 
(Mt. Vernon Place). 

In the immediate vicinity of the monument are: 

The Peabody Institute, school of music, art, library, statuary and paint- 
ings — Monument and Charles streets. 

Statues of: 

George Peabody — Mt. Vernon Place; Chief Justice Roger Brooke 
Taney, General John Eager Howard. Washington Square (Charles 
street and Madison) — Severn Teackle Wallis — Washington Square near 
Centre street. 

Mt. Vernon M. E. Church — Northeast corner Monument 
and Charles streets (Mt. Vernon Place). Attached to the 
wall of this building is a tablet bearing the following inscrip- 
tion: 

"Francis Scott Key, author of 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' departed 
this life on the site of this building, January 11, 1843." 

Walters Art Gallery — The finest private art collection in 
America. Northwest corner Charles and Centre streets. 

Unitarian Church — Magnificent specimen of colonial archi- 
tecture. Northwest corner Charles and Franklin streets. 

Y. M. C. A. Building — Cathedral and Franklin streets. 

Roman Catholic Cathedral — Cathedral and Mulberry- 
streets. 

Cardinal's Residence — Charles and Mulberry streets. 

Enoch Pratt Free Library — Main Building, Mulberry 
street, near Cathedral. 

The Johns Hopkins University Buildings — Howard street 
and Druid Hill avenue. 

Baltimore City College — Howard street, opposite Centre. 



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Lee House — Residence of Gen. R. E. Lee (with United 
States Engineer Corps) during erection of Fort Carroll at 
entrance to Baltimore Harbor. Madison avenue, near Biddle 
street. 

Fifth Regiment Armory — Baltimore's gfeat convention hall. 
Hoffman and Bolton streets. 

Mt. Royal Station (B. & O. R. R.) — Cathedral street. 
Preston street and Mt. Royal avenue. 

Bryn Mawr School — Cathedral and Preston streets. 

Revolutionary War Monument — Mt. Royal avenue. Cathe- 
dral and Oliver streets. 

Union Station (Pennsylvania R. R.) — Charles street and 
Jones Falls. 

Polytechnic Institute — North avenue, from Calvert street 
to Guilford avenue. 

Goucher College, formerly "Woman's College" — St. Paul 
street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth streets. 

Homewood Park — Johns Hopkins University. Charles 
street and University Parkway. 

Druid Hill Park — Six hundred and seventy-four acres, 
noted for its natural beauty. One of the finest parks in 
America. 

Soldiers and Sailors' Monument — Druid Hill Park, be- 
tween Druid Lake and Mt. Royal Reservoir. 

Watson Monument — Mexican War shaft. Mt. Royal ave- 
nue and Lanvale street. 

Maryland Institute — School of art and design. Mt. Royal 
avenue and Lanvale street. 

Confederate Monument — Mt. Royal avenue, near Lanvale 
street. 

Francis Scott Key Monument — Erected to author of **The 
Star-Spangled Banner." Lanvale and Eutaw streets. 

Lexington Market — Baltimore's famous market. Lexington 
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Edgar Allan Poe's Tomb — In Westminster Presbyterian 
Churchyard. Southeast corner Fayette and Greene streets. 

Fourth Regiment Armory — Fayette street, near Paca. 

Maryland Workshop for the Blind — Southwest corner 
Fayette and Paca streets. 

Camden Station (B. & O. R. R.) — Camden and Eutaw 
streets. 

Mt. Clare Shops (B. & O. R. R.)— Where early loco- 
motives were built. Pratt street, from Poppleton street to 
Carey street. 

Mt. Clare Station — Where first telegraph message, "What 
hath God wrought," was received. Poppleton street and 
B. & O. R. R. 

Carroll Park — With colonial mansion of Charles Carroll, 
barrister. Monroe street and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 

Fort McHenry — During bombardment of which Francis 
Scott Key composed "The Star-Spangled Banner." 

Fort Carroll — Mid-stream at entrance of Baltimore harbor. 
Erected 1848-1852 under direction of Gen. R. E. Lee, then 
of United States Engmeers. 

Piers at which large ocean steamers dock — Locust Point, 
near Fort McHenry. 

Riverside Park — Formerly Fort Covington, which pre- 
vented a land attack upon Fort McHenry during bombardment 
in 1814. Randall and Johnson streets. 

Federal Hill Park — Used as a fort during the Civil War. 
Hughes street and Battery avenue. 

Armistead Monument — To memory of Lieutenant-Colonel 
George Armistead, War of 1812-14. Federal Hill Park. 

Where the Fire of 1 904 started — Southeast corner German 
and Liberty streets. 

Congress Hall — A tablet on the wall, east side of Liberty 
street, south of Baltimore street, says: 



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"On this site stood Old Congress Hall, in which the Continental Con- 
gress met December 20, 1 776, and on December 27, 1 776, conferred upon 
General Washington extraordinary powers for the conduct of the Revolu- 
tionary War." 

Hood Monument — Erected by City to John Mifflin Hood, 
President of Western Maryland Railroad, 1874-1902. 

Baltimore and Ohio Office Building — Main offices of 
B. & O. R. R. Northwest corner Charles and Baltimore 
streets. 

Maryland Historical Society Building — Historical docu- 
ments, paintings, statuary, etc. Northwest corner St. Paul and 
Saratoga streets. 

Court House — One of the finest courthouse buildings in 
America. Calvert and Lexington streets. 

Battle, or Baltimore, Monument — Erected in memory of 
soldiers who fell in defense of Baltimore during British attack, 
September 12-13, 1814. Calvert street, between Fayette 
and Lexington streets (Monument Square). 

Postoffice — Fayette and Calvert streets. 

City Hall- — Fayette, North, Holliday and Lexington streets. 

Merchants' Club — German street, between Calvert and 
South streets. A tablet on the west wall says: 

"Upon this site stood, from 1774 to 1786, the Lovely Lane Meetmg 
House, in which was organized (December, 1784) the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church in the United States of America." 

Custom House — Gay and Lombard streets. 

Centre Market — Market Space and Baltimore street. 

President Street Station (P., B. & W. R. R.) — President 

and Fleet streets. 

Shortly after leaving this depot the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was 
attacked, April 19, 1861. 

Wells and McComas Monument — To the memory of two 
sharpshooters who shot Major-General Ross, September 1 2, 
1814. Ross commanded the British forces at Battle of North 
Point. Gay, Monument and Aisquith streets. 



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The Johns Hopkins Hospital — World-famous institution. 
Monument street and Broadway. 

Wildey Monument — To Thomas Wildey, founder of first 
lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows in America. Broad- 
way Square, near Fayette street. 

Patterson Park — One of Baltimore's finest public reserva- 
tions. Contains breastworks erected during War of 1812. 
Patterson Park avenue and Baltimore street. 

Columbus Monument — In grounds of Samuel Ready School, 
North avenue and Bond street. Claimed to be the first monu- 
ment erected in the United States to Christopher Columbus. 
Genuineness of claims disputed and story advanced that the 
former owner of the estate was an enthusiastic horseman and 
raised the shaft (66 feet) over the spot where a favorite steed 
is buried. 

Eastern Female High School — Southeast corner Broadway 
and North avenue. 

Clifton Park — With the summer residence of the late Johns 
Hopkins, founder of university and hospital bearing his name. 
Harford road and Washington street. 




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BALTIMORE HISTORY 
1608-1913 

To begin at the very beginning of direct historical informa- 
tion concerning Baltimore, one must go back to the year 1 608. 

June 2nd, 1 608, Capt. John Smith, whose life is reputed to 
have been saved by Pocahontas, having settled Jamestown, 
started from the vicinity of Cape Henry, on the first of his 
two famous explorations of the Chesapeake Bay. During this 
expedition, which lasted nineteen days, he visited every inlet 
on both sides of the Bay, from the Capes to the Patapsco 
River (named by Smith, Bolus), sailed up that stream, and 
from him we get the first information concernmg the region, 
now Baltimore. Smith and his followers were, therefore, the 
first white men to set eyes on the present site of the City. There 
is no question about Smith's visit to this locality. He prepared 
an excellent map of the Chesapeake and its tributaries. The 
Patapsco River, then, of course, unnamed, he called "Bolus," 
because of the red clay resembling "bole armoniack" along its 
banks. The red clay, or "bole," was a covering for deposits 
of iron ore, afterward discovered and mined. The first of 
these mines was owned and worked by John Moale, at Moale's 
Point, along Spring Gardens. Smith's map indicates quite an 
extensive knowledge of the topography of this section. He went 
up the "Bolus" for a considerable distance. On his voyage 
he had fourteen companions and used a barge, of between 
two and three tons, propelled by sail and oar. He had excit- 
ing and interestmg experiences with Indians. 

Following Captain Smith's explorations in this vicinity, there 
is a lapse of years before the thread of the narrative can be 
taken up by the historian. 

In the absence of proof to the contrary it must be assumed 
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least without interference from white men ; for it was not until 
1661 that history records the second step in the advance of 
civilization. 

In 1661 the first surveys were made, pursuant to land 
grants, and henceforth this section became the permanent habi- 
tation of white men. Tract after tract was taken up by settlers, 
and in 1 706 Locust Point, then "Whetstone Point," was made 
a port of entry. 



INTERESTING EVENTS IN HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 
GIVEN CHRONOLOGICALLY 

Captain John Smith sails from lower Chesapeake on the first of his 
explorations of Chesapeake Bay. He and his followers were the 
first white men to see the locality, now City of Baltimore, 2 June, 1608 

Charles Gorsuch, a member of the Society of Friends, patents 50 
acres at Whetstone Point (Locust Point). Whether Gorsuch 
actually resided on the Point is not known 24 Feb., 1661 

David Jones, reputed to be the first actual settler, "took up" and had 
surveyed 380 acres of Knd along the eastern bank of a stream, 
now Jones Falls, the Falls inheriting its name from the original 
resident. Jones built a house in the vicinity of what is today 
Front street, near the stream 15 June, 1661 

Cascihus Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, becomes Governor of Mary- 
land under Charter from Charles I of England; from Caecilius 
(Lord Baltimore) this City derives its name 1662 

Note: — The original grant of the territory called Mary- 
land was obtained by Sir George Calvert, first of the Barons 
of Baltimore, in 1632. Sir George died before the Charter 
was actually issued, and the grant devolved upon his son 
Caecilius, who became the real founder of Maryland, al- 
though he never visited the Colony. Caecilius, however, sent 
out settlers under his younger brother Leonard. 

Alexander Mounteney "takes up" two hundred acres of land on each 
side of Harford Run, a stream since covered, and now Central 
avenue 1 663 

John Howard patents a tract, which includes a large part of South 
Baltimore, between the Middle and Northwest branches of the 
Patapsco 1668 

Thomas Cole took five hundred and fifty acres, bounded now approxi- 
mately by Paca, Mulberry, High and Lombard streets, the tract 
known as Cole's Harbor 1668 

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James Todd obtains a warrant for Cole's Harbor and has it re- 
surveyed, granted a patent June 1, 1700, under ihe nam-- of 
Todd's Range. Patent later void 1698 

Whetstone Point, by Act of Legislature, was made a port of entry, 

the first within the now city limits 1706 

Mill erected by Jonathan Hanson, who acquires 31 acres, at about 

the point where Bath and HoUiday streets intersect 1711 

Iron ore discovered at Whetstone Point. This tract was re-surveyed 
March 29, 1 723, and passed into the hands of the Principio 
Furnace Company, which concern seems later to have started 
^melting works in other parts of the Colony of Maryland. . . . 1723 

Note: — There is no little confusion concerning the early 
grants and patents, which were sometimes reconveyed, and 
others became the subject of litigation, but the foregoing, as 
conspicuous transactions and incidents, are sufficient for pres- 
ent purposes to show that the history of Baltimore antedates 
1 729-30, when the town was officially laid out. 

Act authorizing "erection" of Baltimore Town passed. . .8 August, 1729 

Town Commission meet and officially survey 60 acres.... 12 Jan., 1730 

Jones Town, east of Baltimore Town, laid out 22 Nov., 1732 

P. E. Parish Church, built on site afterwards occupied by St. Paul's 
Church, corner Charles and Saratoga streets, begun 1 730, com- 
pleted 1 739 

Baltimore and Jones Towns consolidated and incorporated as Balti- 
more Town 1 745 

Subscription of £100 by citizens for building a market-house and 
town-hall, erected 10 years later, at northwest corner Gay and 
Baltimore streets 23 April, 1751 

32 acres annexed, known as "Hall's addition" to Baltimore Town. . 1753 
Mount Clare House erected by Charles Carroll, banister, built 

of imported brick 1 754 

A number of Acadian exiles settle in Baltimore 1756 

Baltimore made the county seat, and courthouse erected where Battle 

Monument now stands 1 768 

Mechanical company organized, and a fire-engine purchased 1769 

First umbrella in the U. S. (brought from India) used here.... 1772 

Baptist Church erected corner Front and Fayette streets, afterwards 

site of the shot tower 1 773 

First newspaper, the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, 

established by William Goddard; first issue 20 August, 1773 

Stage route opened to Philadelphia 1 773 

First Methodist meeting-house in Baltimore built in Strawberry 

alley November, 1 773 

Lovely Lane Methodist Meeting-house erected in Baltimore. .Oct., 1774 

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Capt. William Perkins arrives at Marblehead with 3000 bushels of 
Indian corn, 20 barrels of rye and 21 barrels of bread sent by 
the people of Baltimore for the poor of Boston 28 Aug., 1774 

Baltimore contains 564 houses and 5934 inhabitants 1775 

St. Peter's Church (Roman Catholic), on Saratoga and Charles 

streets, built and occupied I 770—1 775 

Continental Congress holds its session in Congress Hall, corner Balti- 
more and Liberty streets 20 Dec, 1776, to 20 Jan., 1777 

First notable riot in Baltimore. Mr. Goddard of the Maryland 
Journal beset in his office by excited members of the "Whig 
Club," who took exception to an article in his paper lauding 
King George and Parliament 25 March, 1 777 

Count Pulaski organizes his corps in Baltimore March, 1778 

First custom-house erected 1 780 

Paving of the streets begun 1 781 

First brick theatre in Baltimore erected on East Baltimore street, 
nearly opposite the Second Presbyterian Church; opened with 
the play, "King Richard III" 15 Jan., 1782 

Regular line of stage coaches established to Fredericktown and An- 
napolis 1 783 

Policemen first employed 1 784 

Three new market-houses erected 1 784 . 

Streets first lighted with oil lamps 1784 

The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America 

organized Dec, 1 784 

Methodist Church built on northwest corner Light street and Wine 
alley; begun August, 1785; dedicated by Bishop Asbury.. 

21 May, 1786 

First destructive flood recorded 5 Oct., 1786 

St. Mary's College (Seminary of St. Sulpice) established 1791 

Presbyterian Church erected on northwest corner Fayette and North 
streets (afterwards razed to give place to the U. S. Courthouse, 
1860. Later torn down in 1908 to make way for Postoffice 
extension) 1 791 

Bank of Maryland organized 1 791 

Yellow fever epidemic Aug. to Oct., 1 794 

Bank of Baltimore incorporated 24 Dec, 1795 

First directory of Baltimore Town and Fell's Point published.... 1796 
Act passed to lay out and establish a turnpike from the city of 

Washington to Baltimore Town 31 Dec, 1796 

Baltimore Town incorporated as a city; population 20,000, 31 

Dec, 1796; began as an incorporated institution 1797 

First Mayor, James Calhoun, elected 16 Jan., 1797 

Marine Observatory was first established on Federal Hill 1797 



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Library Company of Baltimore, afterwards merged with the Mary- 
land Historical Society, incorporated. (Library contained 4000 
volumes m 1800) 20 Jan.. 1797 

Maryland Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, and the 
relief of free negroes and others unlawfully held in bondage, 
formed in Baltimore; the fourth in the U. S 8 Sept., 1798 

Baltimore American and Daily Advertiser first issued. (Successor 
of Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, established 

1773) 14 May, 1799 

On the 15lh of December news of the death of General 
Washington reached Baltimore, and on the first day of Jan- 
uary, 1800, commemorative funeral rites were held. The 
militia, including the regulars at Fort McHenry, and citizens, 
many from the country surrounding Baltimore, formed a pro- 
cession at the "Head of Baltimore street," where an appro- 
priate address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Allison. From thence 
the procession went to Christ Church. A bier was carried 
into the edifice, and the funeral services were conducted by 
Rev. Dr. Bend. There was a concourse present. 

As a result of this demonstration, sundry bills against the 
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore were rendered, gen- 
erally upon fragments of paper. These have been mounted, 
and are on exhibition at the City Library. 

President Adams passes through Baltimore June 15, 1800, from 
Washington. The Mayor and City Council presented him an 

address of welcome 15 June, 1 800 

(Original document — President's reply — at City Library.) 

Petition of Protest against erection of a City Hall 1801 

(Original document at City Library.) 

Jerome Bonaparte and Miss Elizabeth Patterson married in Balti- 
more 24 Dec, 1803 

Union Bank of Maryland organized and chartered 1804 

Mechanics' Bank incorporated 1806 

Corner-stone of Roman Catholic Cathedral laid 7 July, 1806 

Baltimore Water Company formed with capital of $250,000, 30 
April, 1804, and water first supplied through cast-iron pipes 
(water taken from Jones Falls) May, 1807 

Courthouse building on North Calvert street, corner Lexington, be- 
gun 1 805 ; occupied 1 809 

Note: — The above building was torn down to make place 
for the present marble structure. 

Mob destroys the office of the Federal Republican 27 July, 1812 

"New Theatre," afterwards called "Holliday Street Theatre," 

opened 10 May, 1813 

First steamboat built in Baltimore, the Chesapeake, constructed by 

William McDonald & Co 1813 



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British forces under General Rcfts advance against the city, 12 Sept., 1814 

Engagement at North Point, General Ross killed 12 Sept., 1814 

Fort McHenry bombarded by British fleet 12-13 Sept., 1814 

"The Star-Spangled Banner ' was composed by Francis Scott 
Key, while on board the United States ship Minden, during the 
bombardment of Fort McHenry. 

"The Star-Spangled Banner" printed in the Baltimore American 

and Daily Advertiser 21 Sept., 1814 

Corner-stone of the Washington Monument laid (height of monu- 
ment, 180 feet) (completed 25 Nov., 1824) 4 July, 1815 

Corner-stone of Battle Monument laid (erected in honor of Balti- 
moreans killed defending the City in 1814) (monument finished 
12 Sept., 1822) 12 Sept., 1815 

Population of Baltimore increased 16,000 by annexation of the pre- 
cincts 1816 

Maryland Flospilal incorporated 29 Jan., 1816 

St. Andrew's Society incorporated 1 Feb., 1816 

Medical Society of Maryland incorporated 1 Feb., 1816 

St. Paul's P. E. Church erected on corner Saratoga and Charles 
streets; corner-stone laid 4 May, 1814; completed at cost of 

$126,140 1817 

Disastrous freshet in Jones Falls; part of the city called the 

"Meadows" overflowed to depth of 10 to 15 feet. . . .8 Aug., 1817 

President Monroe visits Baltimore 1819 

(For correspondence relative thereto, see exhibit at City 
Library.) 

First Odd Fellows' Lodge in America, Washington Lodge No, 1 , 
organized at Fell's Point, 13 April, 1819, through the efforts 
of Thomas Wildey. It received a charter from the Duke of 
York's Lodge at Preston, Lancashire, England 1 Feb., 1820 

First building lighted with gas, Peale's Museum on Holliday street, 
afterwards old City Hall, 1816. First public buildmg lighted 
With gas, the "Belvidere Theatre," northwest corner North and 
Saratoga streets 1820 

Exchange Building (Custom-house, torn down 1902), Water, Gay, 

Lombard streets, opened for business June, 1820 

Roman Catholic Cathedral (begun 1806) consecrated by Arch- 
bishop Mareschal 31 May, 1821 

Disastrous fire; 3 lumber yards and 25 lo 30 buildings, mostly 

v/arehouses, burned 23 June, 1822 

Statue placed on Battle Monument 12 Sept., 1822 

Corner-stone of Baltimore Athenaeum at southwest corner St. Paul 

and Lexington streets, laid 10 Aug., 1824 

General Lafayette visits Baltimore 7-11 Oct., 1824 



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Washington Monument (the first monument erected in honor of 

George Washington) completed 25 Nov., 1824 

Mrs. Ellen Moale (first white child born within the town of Balti- 
more) dies March, 1 825 

Erection of Barnum's City Hotel begun 1825 

Maryland Academy of Science and Literature incorporated. (Con- 
tinued until 1844) 16 Feb., 1826 

First exhibition of Maryland Institute 7 Nov., 1826 

Subscription books for stock of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened; 

$4,178,000 taken by 22,000 subscribers 20-27 March, 1827 

First banking-house opened by Evan Poultney in Baltimore street, 

June, 1828 

Foundation stone of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad laid by the 
Masonic Grand Lodge of Maryland, assisted by Charles Car- 
roll of CarroUton 4 July, 1823 

Shot-tower (Phoenix Company), 234 feet high, circular, and of 

brick, built without scaffolding, completed 25 Nov., 1828 

Corner-stone of the Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad (later 
Northern Central Railroad) laid, and centennial of Baltimore 
celebrated 8 Aug., 1829 

First public school opened 24 Sept., 1829 

Old Baltimore Museum, northwest corner Baltimore and Calvert 

streets, opened 1 Jan., 1830 

(Building sold to B. & O. R. R., March, 1874.) 

First steam car was run en the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. on 28 Aug., 1830 

Epidemic of cholera July-Sept., 1832 

Charles Carroll of CarroUton, the last survivor of the signers of ihs 
Declaration of Independence, aged 95, dies at Baltimore.... 

14 Nov., 1832 

Bank of Maryland fails 24 March, 1834 

Baltimore and Washington Railroad was opened 25 Aug., 1834 

Riot, growing out of failure of Bank of Maryland Aug., 1835 

First issue of the Baltimore Sun 17 May, 1837 

Sudden freshet in Jones Falls; 19 lives lost; Harrison and Fred- 
erick streets 10 feet under water 14 July, 1837 

City of Kingston, first steam vessel from Baltimore to Europe di- 
rect, leaves port 20 May, 1838 

Baltimore Academy of Visitation opened, 1837; chartered 1838 

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first of dental colleges, 
and for many years the only dental college in the world, was 

chartered 1 839 

Greenmount Cemetery dedicated 13 July, 1839 

Mercantile Library Association organized 14 Nov., 1839 

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St. Vincent de Paul's Church, corner-stone laid by Archbishop 

Eccleston, 21 May; 1840; dedicated 7 Nov., 1841 

Explosion of steamer Medora, just about to start on her trial excur- 
sion; 27 killed; 40 wounded 15 April, 1842 

Francis Scolt Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," died.. 

II Jan., 1843 

Adams Express Company was established in Baltimore 1843 

Historical Society of Maryland organized; Gen. John Spear Smith, 

first president 27 Jan., 1844 

Omnibus line established May, 1 844 

Magnetic telegraph from Washington city to Mt. Clare Depot, Pop- 
pleton and Pralt streets, B. & O. R. R., wires covered with 
rope-yarn and tar, completed; first communication, "What hath 
God wrought!" received 27 May, 1844 

Corner-stone of St. Alphonsus' Church laid, 1 May, 1842; church 

dedicated 14 March, 1 845 

Maryland Institute for the promotion of the mechanics' arts or- 
ganized 12 Jan., 1 843 

Fire destroys 60 dwellings, breaking out in a cotton factory in Lex- 
ington street, near Fremont 28 May, 1848 

Howard Athenaeum and Gallery of Art, northeast corner Baltimore 

and Charles streets, opened as a theatre 12 June, 1848 

Baltimore Athenaeum opened and edifice inaugurated. .. .23 Oct., 1848 

Baltimore Female College opened 1848; chartered 1849 

Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore, aged 40 years 7 Oct., 1849 

Jennie Lind arrives in Baltimore. (J. H. Whitehurst, "daguerreo- 
typist, ' bids $100 for first choice of seals at her first concert) . . 

8 Dec, 1850 

Corner-stone of Maryland Institute. Baltimore street and Marsh 
Market Space, laid March 13, 1851 ; the building was opened. . 

20 Oct., 1851 

Building destroyed in fire of 1904; new one (Center Mar- 
ket) erected, near same site, 1907. 

Reception to Louis Kossuth 27 Dec, 1851 

Loyola College, Calvert street, near Madison, opened.... 15 Sept., 1852 
Remains of Junius Brutus Booth, tragedian, arrived in Baltimore, his 

home, from Louisville, Ky., where he died 2 Dec 9 Dec, 1852 

Loudon Park Cemetery dedicated 14 July, 1853 

Maryland School for the Blind opened 1853 

Baltimore Orphan Asylum, Strieker street, near Saratoga, opened. . 

10 Nov., 1853 

Excursion train returning to Baltimore from Rider's Grove collides 
with accommodation train from Baltimore, near the Relay 
House; over 30 killed and about 100 injured 4 July, 1854 

Water-works purchased by the city 1 854 



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Trial of a steam fire-engine, the "Miles Greenwood," built at Cincin- 
nati for the corporation of Boston; the first seen in Baltimore. . 

2 Feb., 1855 

Erection of the new First Presbyterian Church, corner Madison 

street and Park avenue, begun July. 1855 

Melee among the firemen; 2 killed; many injured 18 Aug., 1855 

St. Paul's P. E. Church burned, 29 April, 1854; rebuilt and dedi- 
cated 10 Jan., 1856 

Battle between Rip Rap Club and the New Market Fire Com- 
pany; many wounded; city election dispute 8 Oct., 1856 

Election riot; Democrats and Know-nothings 4 Nov., 1856 

Disastrous fire, 37-41 South Charles street; 14 persons killed by a 

fallmg wall 14 April, 1857 

Strike on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and encounter between 

the militia and rioters 29 April-2 May, 1857 

Banks suspend specie payment 28 Sept., 1857 

Maryland Club incorporated 24 Feb., 1858 

Clearing-house established 8 March, 1858 

Steam fire-engine, the "Alpha, " the first owned by the Ballimore 

Fire Department, arrives in the city 18 May, 1858 

Flood, almost as destructive as that of 1837, occurs 12 June, 1858 

Ordinance passed for a partial paid city fire department. .. .Sept., 1858 

Reform Association organized at a mass-meeting in Monument 

Square 8 Sept., 1 858 

Peabody Institute, endowed by George Peabody with $1,300,000, 

1857; incorporated 9 March, 1858; corner-stone laid. .16 April, 1859 

Police and fire-alarm telegraph adopted June, 1858; first put in 

operation 27 June, 1 859 

First car placed on the City Passenger Railway on Broadway, and 

line opened : 27 Oct., 1859 

Baltimore police force placed under State control 2 Feb., 1860 

Reception to Japanese Ambassadors, guests of the United States 

Government 8 June, 1 860 

Druid Hill Park, purchased by the city in September, 1860, opened. . 

19 Oct., 1860 

Attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts and Seventh Pennsylvania 
Regiments while attempting to pass through the city to Wash- 
ington; 12 citizens and 3 soldiers killed; 23 soldiers and sev- 
eral citizens wounded 19 April, 1861 

Note: — Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment sent back from 
President Street Depot in direction of Philadelphia. 

Scharf says: Citizens killed, 12; soldiers, 4; citizens 
wounded, 4; soldiers, many. 

Colonel Jones of Sixth Massachusetts: Soldiers killed, 3. 

Mayor G. W. Brown: Soldiers killed, 4; citizens killed, 
12; soldiers wounded, 36. — W. F. C. 



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Gen. B. F. Butler takes military possession 13 May, 1861 

Thomas Wildey, the "Father of Odd-Fellowship in the U. S.," 

dies in Baltimore, aged 80 years 19 Oct., 1861 

Corner-stone of St. Martin's Roman Catholic Church, southea-.t 

corner Fulton avenue and Fayette street, laid 9 July, 1865 

The Wildey Monument, erected by the Odd-Fellows, corner-stone 

laid 26 April, 1865, IS dedicated 20 Sept., 1865 

Southern Relief Fair, in aid of the suffering poor of Southern States, 
held at the hall of the Maryland Institute, receipts, $164,569.97 

2-13 April, 1866 

Maryland State Normal School opened 1865 

Dedication of the Peabody Institute 25 October., 1865 

Corner-stone of Masonic Temple, North Charles street, laid 20 Nov., 1865 

Corner-stone of new City Hall laid 18 Oct., 1867 

Excessive heat; thermometer 97 to 101 in the shade; 30 cases of 

sun-stroke; 21 fatal 16 July, 1868 

Most disastrous flood on record. A street car floats down Harrison 

street; the water reaches to the second story of buildings, and 

most of the bridges over Jones Falls, including the hea\y iron 

bridge at Fayette street, are swept away 24 July, 1868 

Maryland Institution for the Blind, on North avenue, near Guilford 
Corner-stone of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church 

laid 26 Sept., 1869 

Ford's Grand Opera House inaugurated. Shakespeare's "As You 

Like It," the opening play 3 Oct., 1871 

Third National Bank robbed between banking hours, Saturday and 

Monday; loss over $220,000 1 7-19 Aug., 1872 

Initial number of the Evening News 4 Nov., 1872 

Thermometer 10 below zero night of 29 Jan., 1873 

Church of the Ascension, Protestant Episcopal, destroyed by fire. . 

12 May, 1873 

Baltimore and Potomac tunnel, about l'/2 miles in length, begun 
June, 1871, and first passenger train passed through to Calvert 
Station 29 June, 1 873 

Union Railroad tunnel (Greenmount avenue to Bond street) begun 
May, 187l ; completed June, 1873, and first train through.... 

24 July, 1873 

Most extensive fire to date (1873) in the city breaks out in a plan- 
ing-miU en Park and Clay streets; 113 buildings destroyed, in- 
cluding 2 churches, 3 schoolhouses ; loss $750,000. . . .25 July, 1873 

Johns Hopkins dies, aged 79 24 Dec, 1873 

Morning Herald established 1875 

City Hall completed 1 875 

Monument to Edgar Allan Poe (Westminster Presbyterian Church- 
yard) unveiled 17 Nov., 1 875 

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Johns Hopkins University incorporated 24 August, 1867; endowed 

by its founder with $3,000,000, is opened 1876 

Following a strike on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on the 16th, 
rioting occurred, and on the 18lh troops were sent to Martins- 
burg — the President having issued a warning proclamation to the 
rioters. This was succeeded by strikes and riots on most of the 
leading railroads in the United States, accompanied by immense 
destruction of railroad property and freight. The riots were 
quelled by troops with considerable loss of life. On the 20lh a 
riot occurred at the Sixth Regiment Armory, in Baltimore, in 
which eleven persons were killed and several wounded. The 
occasion was the movement of the regiment to assist in quelling 
the railroad rioters. The trouble continued until the end of the 
month before they were quieted, and on the 30th railroad travel 
was partially resumed July, 1 877 

150th anniversary of the foundation of the cily celebrated 10-15 Oct., 1880 

Over 65 excursionists, principally from Baltimore, drowned by the 

giving way of the pier at Tivoli 23 July, 1883 

Enoch Pratt Free Library, founded by Enoch Pratt, with $1 ,250,000 

in 1882, formally opened lo the public 5 Jan., 1886 

Great fire in Hopkins Place; loss, $2,000,000; 7 firemen killed and 

6 injured 2 Sept., 1 888 

Asylum for Feeble- Minded Children opened Jan., 1889 

The Johns Hopkins Hospital, endowed with $3,500,000, opened. . 

7 May, 1889 
Six days' celebration of 75lh anniversary of the defense of the city, 

begun 9 Sept., 1889 

22 persons rescued from the wrecked steamship "Astoria* landed at 

Baltimore by the steamship "Decatur H. Miller" ... .31 Aug., 1893 

Panic during Yiddish performance at Front Street Theatre; 23 

persons killed; others injured 27 Dec, 1895 

Governor Lowndes approved the Act of the General Assembly, 

granting a new charter to the City of Baltimore. . . .24 March, 1898 

Great fire, which traversed 140 acres and destroyed 86 blocks in the 
heart of the city. Loss, variously estimated, possibly about 
$125,000,000 7-8 Feb., 1904 

"Greater Baltimore Jubilee" lo celebrate the rehabilitation of the 

city, begun 10 Sept., 1 906 

Y. M. C. A. building fund of $500,000 completed 13 Nov., 1906 

New Custom-house opened 2 Dec, 1 907 

Maryland Home Coming. The event was celebrated in Baltimore 
by parades and various official functions and festive demonstra- 
tions 13-19 Oct., 1907 

New building of Maryland Institute, School of Art and Design, on 

Baltimore street and Market Space, dedicated 26 Nov., 1907 



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William Pinkney Whyte, who had been State Comptroller, Mayor 
of Baltimore, Governor of Maryland, U. S. Senator and lead- 
ing member of the Bar, died, aged 83 17 March., 

New building, Maryland Institute, Mt. Royal avenue and Lanvale 

street dedicated 23 Nov., 

New building of Walters Art Gallery (containing the finest private 

collection of paintmgs in America) opened 3 Feb., 

Electric current, generated at McCall Ferry, Susquehanna River, 

introduced in Baltimore 14 Oct., 

F. C. Latrobe (seven limes Mayor of Baltimore City) died, 18 Jan., 

John M. Hood Memorial unveiled 11 May, 

Key Monument unveiled 15 May, 

Celebration of 50th anniversary of the ordmation of Cardinal Gib- 
bons and the 25th anniversary of his elevation to the rank of 

Cardinal 6 June, 

S. S. "Friedrich der "Grosse," largest steamship to visit port, Balti- 
more to Bremen, sails 28 June, 

High pressure fire pipe line placed m service 23 Apr., 

Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital opened, 



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INDEX 



•^ PAGE 

Amusements 1 05 

Annex, Street Improvements m 11 

Aquatic Sports 1 05 

Area of Baltimore City 57 

Armory, Fifth Regiment 20, 22, 143 

Art Gallery, Wallers 101 

Articles Manufactured in Baltimore 57, 59, 61 

Ashburton Park 37 

Ashland Square 35 

Awards, Board of 31 

B 

Baltimore College of Dental Surgery 101 

Baltimore, Government of 31 

Baltimore Harbor 2a, 28, 31, 58, 60, 71, 115, 155, 157 

Baltimore in 1 752 2a 

Baltimore, Map of 157 

Baltimore Monument, Lord 1 34 

Baltimore (or Battle) Monument 108, 132 

Baltimore Street 48, 106, 144 

Baltimore Trade and Industrial Organizations 55 

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 29, 63, 68, 81, 82, 85, 86, 89 

Baltimore and Panama Frontispiece II 

Baltimore and Vicinity (Map) 3 

Banner Centennial, National Star-Spangled Frontispiece I 

Baths, Public 42, 43 

Battle (or Baltimore) Monument 108, 113, 132 

Battleship New Hampshire 88 

Bee Hive Buildings 67 

Bee Hive of Industry 65 

Belair Market 95 

Belt Line Tunnel 63 

Board of Awards 31 

Board of Estimates 31 

Board of Trade Report, British 91, 93, 97 

Boat Lake, Druid Hill Park 13 

Bo-Lin Square 37 

Bolton Park (Mt. Royal Station) 37 

Bonding 67 

Brewer Square 37 

British Board of Trade Report 91, 93, 97 

Broadway 25, 38 

Broadway Squares 35, 38, 1 50 

Builders' Exchange 27 

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INDEX— Continued 

B — Conlinued PAGE 

Buildings, Bee Hive 67 

Buildings, Industrial 67 

Buildings, Public (See Points of Interest) . .6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 22, 30, 143 

Burnt District 2a, 1 55 

Burnt District Commission 9 

Business Section, Night View of 145 

C 

Callow Triangle 37 

Calvert Monument, Caecilius (Lord Baltimore) 134 

Calvert Street 108 

Canton Market 95 

Carroll, Fort 152 

Carroll Park 34, 35 

Centennial, National Star-Spangled Banner Frontispiece I 

Centre, Industrial 57 

Centre, Jobbing 69 

Centre Market 95, 96 

Chamber of Commerce 27, 73, 75 

Charles Street 37, 1 18, 146, 147 

Chronologically Arranged History of Baltimore 1 19-139 

Chesapeake Bay 71 , 89, 97 

Churches 126, 128 

City College 44, 45 

City College Lot 37 

City Council 31 

City Engineer 31 

City Government 7-51, 31 

City Hall 6, 30 

City Plan, Commission on 21 

City Register 31 

City Solicitor 31 

Civic Centre 21 

Clifton Park 34, 35 

Climate 103 

Clinic, The Henry Phipps Psychiatric 41 

Coal Piers 74 

Coal and Coke 85 

College, City 44, 45 

College Lot, City 37 

College Fraternity Dance 140 

Colleges (See Schools). 

CoUington Square 35 

Commerce and Transportation 6^ 

Commercial Influence, Baltimore's Sphere of 74a 

Commercial Section 69-89 

Commissioner of Health 41 

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INDEX— Continued 

C. . C — Continued PAGE 

ommissions: 

Burnt District 9 

City Plan 21 

Municipal Factory Site 27 

Paving 11 

Comptroller 31 

Conduit System, Electrical Underground 51 

Confederate Home. . . . : 1 53 

Confederate Soldiers and Sailors' Monument 122 

Conservatory, Druid Hill Park 36 

Convention, National Democratic 143 

Court House 8 

Cross Street Market 95 

Custom House, United States 12 



D 

Dam on Gunpowder River at Loch Raven 18 

Dam on Susquehanna River at McCall Ferry 62, 63 

Deluge, Fireboat 55 

Democratic National Convention 143 

Dental Surgery, Baltimore College of 101 

Dining-Rooms, Hotel 141, 142 

Disposal Plant, Sewerage System 15, 16 

Distances from Eastern to Southern and Western Cities, Table of . . 80 

Docks 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 84, 85, 86, 151 

Docks, Municipal 9, 24, 25, 26, 28, 52, 58 

Domestic Section 91-139 

Druid Hill Park 13, 23, 32, 35, 36, 105 

Druid Hill Park Boat Lake 13 

Drydock Dewey 56 

Dwellings 91, 93 



Eastern City Springs Square 35 

Eastern Female High School 44, 45 

Easterwooji Park 37 

Educational Center 101 

Electrical Conduit System, Underground 51 

Elevators, Grain 54, 72, 73, 89, 151 

Enoch Pratt Free Library 101, 102 

Establishments, Manufacturing 57 

Estimates, Board of 31 

Eutaw Place Squares 35, 120 

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F PAGE 

Facilities, Teminal 72. 74, 81, 83, 84, 85 

Factory Site Commission, Municipal 27, 29 

Federal Hill Park 35 

Federation of Labor 27 

Fell's Point Market 95 

Female High Schools 44, 45 

Fifth Regiment Armory 20, 22, 143 

Fifth Regiment Armory Parking 37 

Filtration Plant 19 

Financial Centre 66 

Financial Institutions 67 

Fireboat Deluge 55 

Fire Department 4/ 

Apparatus 13, 46, 47 

Buildings 13 

High Pressure Pipe Line 11, 47 

Fire of 1904 2a, 7, 9,25, 95, 155 

Fish Market % 

Food Supply Center 9/ 

Fort Carroll 1 52 

Fort McHenry Frontispiece I, 43, 49 

Fort McHenry 43, 49 

Franklin Square ^^ 35 

Fre 
Fre 
Fre 
Fre 
Fre 
Fre 




ght Rates from Western Points _• 79 

ght Rates to Southern Points 76, 77 

ght Rates to Western Points 73 

ght Sheds and Grain Elevators 54 

ght Warehouses 54 

....ght Yards 50, 68, 84 

Frick Triangle 3/ 

Fulton Avenue Squares 35 

G 

Girls' High Schools 45 

Goucher College 100, 101 

Government of Baltimore 31 

Grain Elevators 54, 72, 73, 89, 151 

Grain-Handling Facilities 73 

Grain Rates ^^ 

Green Spring Avenue 3/ 

Gunpowder River j^ 

Gunpowder River Dam at Loch Raven 18 

Gwynn's Falls Park •^' 

H 

Hanover Market 95 

Harbor of Baltimore 28, 31, 58. 60. 71. 155, 157 

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Harlem Park 35 

Health, Commissioner of 41 

Heahh Department 39 

Health cf Baltimore 39 

Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic 41 

Herring Run Park 37 

High Pressure Pipe Line (Fire Department) 11, 47 

Highways: 

Jones Falls 7, 21 

Key 11, 21. 23 

History of Baltimore I 1 7- 1 39 

Hollins Market 95 

Homes, Owned and Rented 91 

Hopkins Hospital, Johns 40, 41, 101 

Hopkins Mansion, Johns 34 

Hopkins University, The Johns 101 

Hospitals 39, 40, 41, 51, 101, 150 

Hotel Accommodations 103 

Hotel Dining-Rooms 141, 1 42 

Howard Monument, John Eager 130 



I 

Immigrants 58 

Immigration Pier ^ 86 

Industrial Advantages 53 

Industrial Buildings 67 

Industrial Centre 57 

Industrial District, Baltimore 57 

Industrial Section 53-67 

Industrial and Trade Organizations 55 

Industry, Bee Hive of 65 

Influence, Baltimore s Sphere of Commercial 74a 

Institutes (See Schools). 

Institutions, Financial 67 

Interest, Points of 1 07- II 5 



J 

Jackson Square 35 

Jobbing Centre 69 

Johns Hopkins Hospital 40, 41, 101 

Johns Hopkins Mansion, Old 34 

Johns Hopkins University, The 101 

Johnston Square 35 

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Jones Falls 21 

Jones Falls (Lake Roland Reservoir) 19 

Jones Falls Highway 21 

Journal, Municipal 29 



K 

Key Highway 11, 21, 23 

Key Monument 132 



L 

Labor, Federation of 27 

Labor Troubles, No 65 

Lafayette Market 95 

Lafayette Square 35 

Lake Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad 81 

Lake Montebello 45 

Lake Roland 19 

Latrobe Park 37 

Lazaretto Lighthouse 115 

Lee, Robert E 152 

Lexington Market 94, 95 

Lexington Street 110 

Liberty Triangle 35 

Library, Enoch Pratt Free 101, 102 

Lighting System 144, 145, 146, 147 

Light Street Wharf 60, 70 

Linden Avenue Triangle 37 

Lines, Steamship 87, 89 

Living Conditions 91 

Loch Raven Dam on Gunpowder River 18 

Loch Raven Reservoir 19, 37 

Locust Point 50, 63 

Lord Baltimore Monument 134 



M 

McCall Ferry, Dam on the Susquehanna River 62. 63 

McHenry, Fort Frontispiece I, 43, 49 

McLane, Robert M 9 

Machinery and Plants Exempt from Taxation 33 

Madison Square 35 

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Manufacturing Establishments 57 

Map of Baltimore I 57 

Map of Baltimore and Panama Frontispiece II 

Map of Baltimore and Vicinity 3 

Maple Place 37 

Market Place 25 

Markets 94, 95. 96 

Maryland Electric Railroad 63 

Maryland Institute 95. 100. 101 

Maryland Steel Company's Plant 56 

Maryland University 101. 1 04 

Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 83 

Mayor 4, 31 

Mayor James H. Preston 4 

Merchants and Manufacturers Association 27 

Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Old Town 27 

Merchants and Travelers Association 27 

Miscellaneous Section 99- 1 54 

Mondawmin Squares 37 

Monuments (See Points of Interest) 98, 108, 122, 124. 130. 

132, 134, 139, 150, 165 

Mt. Royal Avenue 122 

Mt. Royal Pumping Station 17 

Mt. Royal Station 82 

Mt. Royal Squares 35, 122 

Mt. Royal Terraces 35, 148 

Mt. Vernon Squares 35, 98, 124. 130 

Municipal Docks 9, 24. 25, 26. 28. 52 

Municipal Factory Site Commission 27 

Municipal Hospital 39 

Municipal Journal 29 



N 

National Convention. Democratic 143 

National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial Frontispiece I 

Neptune. United States Collier 85 

New Hampshire. United Stales Battleship 88 

Night Views of: 

Baltimore Street |44 

Business Section 145 

Charles Street 1 46, j 47 

Normal School, State 1 02 

Northeast Market 95 

Northern Central Railroad 72, 84, 151 

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Panama and Baltimore Frontispiece II 

Park Place Squares 35 

Parks and Squares 13, 23, 32. 33, 34, 35, 37. 38, 42, 98. 

120. 124. 150 

Patapsco River 51, 71, 97, 151 

Pavmg Commission II 

Peabody. George 1 65 

Peabody Institute 101. 104 

Pennsylvania Railroad 27. 81. 82. 84, 151 

Perkins Spring Square 35 

Philadelphia Road Triangle 37 

Phipps Psychiatric Clinic 41 

Piers: 

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 85, 86 

Coal 74 

Immigration 86 

Light Street 70 

Municipal 9. 24, 25, 26, 28, 52, 58 

Northern Central Railroad 72, 84, 151 

No. 4 25 

Recreation 9 

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad 81 

Plants and Machinery Exempt from Taxation 83 

Playgrounds 64 

Playground Association 33, 35 

Poe. Edgar Allan 150 

Poe Monument 1 34 

Points of Interest 107-1 15 

Police Buildings 11 

Police Department 49 

Polytechnic Institute 45, 138 

Population of Baltimore City 99 

Population of Baltimore City and Suburbs 99 

Postoffice 10 

Pratt Free Library, Enoch 101, 102 

Pratt Street 25, 1 16 

Preston, James H. (Mayor of Baltimore) 4 

Produce Market, Wholesale 96 

Public Balhs 42. 43 

Public Buildings 6. 8, 10. 12. 20, 22, 30, 49, 143 

Pumping Station (Sanitary Sewerage System) 1 5 

Pumping Station, Mt. Royal ("Water Department) 17 



Quarantine Station 39, 41, 51 

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Kauroads: 

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 29. 81 . 82. 85, 86. 89 

Maryland Electric Railroad 63 

Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 83 

Northern Central Railroad 72. 84. 151 

Pennsylvania Railroad 27, 81. 82, 84, 151 

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad 81 

Western Maryland Railroad 9, 29, 74, 81 

Railroad Terminal Facilities 81 , 83 

Real Estate Exchange 27 

Recreation Pier 9, 25 

Reservoirs '9, 37 

Revolutionary War Monument 132 

Richmond Market 95 

Riggs Triangle 37 

Rivers: 

Patapsco 51. 71, 97 

Susquehanna 62. 63 

Riverside Park 34, 35 

S 

Sewerage System, Sanitary 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 

Sew^erage Disposal Plant 15. 16, 17 

Sewerage Pumping Station 15 

Schools 44, 45, 95, 100, 101, 120. 150 

Sharp Street 114 

Sheds, Freight 54 

Shepherd at Druid Hill Park 105 

Shipbuilding Industries 56 

Soldiers and Sailors Monument 1 39 

South Street 66 

Sports. Aquatic '05 

Squares and Parks (See Points of Interest) .... 1 3. 23, 32. 33, 34, 

35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 98, 120. 124. 130. 150 

Star-Spangled Banner Centennial, National Frontispiece I 

Star-Spangled Banner (or Key) Monument '32 

Stations: 

Mt. Royal (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) 82 

Union (Pennsylvania Railroad) 82 

Steamship Lines 87. 89 

Street Car Service 93 

Street Paving ' ' 

Streets 38. 48, 66, 106. 108, no. 112, 114, 116, 118, 120, 

122, 124, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150 

Suburbs of Baltimore 90. 92, 99 

Swann Park 37 

Swimming Pool (Patterson Park) 34, 42 

Sydenham Hospital , 39, 41 

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Taney Place 35 

Taxation, Machinery and Plants Exempt from 83 

Teachers' Training School 45 

Terminal Facilities 72, 74, 81 , 83, 85 

Theatres 1 05 

Trade and Industrial Organizations 55 

Transportation and Commerce 69 

Travelers and Merchants Association 27 

Troubles, No Labor 65 

Tunnel, Belt Line 63 



u 

Union Square 35 

Union Station 82 

Universities (See Schools). 

University of Maryland 101, 104 

University Parkway 149 



V 

Venable Park '. 37 

Vocational Schools 45 



w 

Wage-Earners and Wages 57 

Wallace Monument 134 

Walters Art Gallery 101 

Warehouses, Freight 54 

Washington Monument 98, 124, 130 

Washington Place Squares 35 

Waterfront 7i, 136 

Water Pipe Line, High Pressure 11 

Water Supply 11, 17, 18, 19, 37, 45 

Watson Monument (Mexican War) 130 

Western Maryland Railroad 9, 29, 74 

Wharf, Light Street 60, 70 

Wharves (See Piers). 

White Way, The Great 144 

Wilkens Avenue Squares 35 

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Wildey Monument (Odd Fellows) 1 50 

Woman's College 100, 101 

Wyman Park 37 

Y 

Yards. Freight 50, 68. 84 

Young Men s Christian Association I 54 






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BALTIMORE'S CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL 

STAR-SPANGLED BANNER CENTENNIAL, 

SEPTEMBER, 1914. 



Baltimore has held many large and successful celebrations, but the 
most elaborate and brilliant in its history will be the observance of the 
One Hundredth Anniversary of the successful defense of Baltimore at 
North Point and Fort McHenry, the birth of the national anthem, the 
achievement of national independence and a century of peace and progress. 

The program will extend from September 6th to 13th. On Sunday, 
September 6th, there will be patriotic sermons and addresses in all the 
churches of the City. In the afternoon there will be a grand musical 
festival in Druid Hill Park by mass orchestra and the United Singing 
Societies of Baltimore, and in the evening there will be a brilliant illumi- 
nation of the City. Monday will be devoted to the welcoming of dis- 
tinguished visitors, to the unveiling of tablets and monuments by patriotic 
societies and to the arrival and reception of the famous frigate Constel- 
lation, and the battleships and cruisers which the Navy will send for 
the week of the celebration. In the evening there will be a general illumi- 
nation of the City, with band concerts located in different sections, so 
that the spirit of the whole anniversary may be enlivened. On Tuesday 
there will be an Industrial Parade, which is expected to display most of 
Baltimore's four thousand different industries. It is expected to have 
features that have never before been seen in a procession of this kind 
and it will consume practically all of the day. In the evening there will 
be another illumination of the City, with band concerts in different sections. 
In fact, these band concerts and the general illumination will be arranged 
so as to last throughout the week. On Wednesday the fraternal orders 
will hold the largest parade in the whole history of fraternalism in the 
United States. These orders have been prime movers in the Centennial 
work and they will have expensive floats, which will add greatly to their 
display. This work has called forth a mass of detail, which is an in- 
dication of the deep interest taken in the event by the different societies. 
Thursday will be Municipal and Athletic Day, with contests in the morn- 
ing, with unveiling of tablets and monuments by historic societies in the 
afternoon and with the historical floats depicting different events in history 
in the evening. On Friday will be the great Army and Navy Day, with 
a military parade of many thousand troops, including the Army and 
Navy and the National Guard, along with detached companies. In the 
evening will be a banquet to the President of the United States and his 
Cabinet, the Governors of the different States, the visiting officers of the 
Army and Navy and specially invited guests. The climax will come on 
Saturday, which will be The Star-Spangled Banner Day. The flag will 
be escorted through the highways of the City to Fort McHenry, whose 
successful defense gave Francis Scott Key the inspiration for his song. 
The escort will consist of the President of the United States, of the 
Governors of the different States and of distinguished and specially in- 
vited guests, and of troops from the eighteen Slates which formed the 
Union when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written. On the arrival 
of this procession at Fort McHenry, President Wilson will deliver an 
address and "The Star-Spangled Banner" will be sung by a human flag 
composed of thousands of school children of Baltimore. On the evening 
of Saturday there will be a display of fireworks, reproducing many 
features of the battle. Sunday, September 13th, will be Peace Day and 
the exercises will take place in the churches of the City. 



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